ignorecase in AWK

Question

The following command is working as expected.

# some command | awk \'/(\\<^create\\>|\\<^alter\\>|\\<^drop\\>)/,/;/\' 
create table todel1         


        

Answer 1

The following line executes an OR test instead of an AND :

echo -e "Create\nAny text" | awk 'IGNORECASE = 1;/^create/;'
Create
Create
Any text

The BEGIN special word solved the problem :

echo -e "Create\nAny text" | awk 'BEGIN{IGNORECASE = 1}/^create/;'
Create

Hope this helps.

Sebastien.