Simple trouble with awk and regex

Question

 echo xx y11y rrr | awk \'{ if ($2 ~/y[1-5]{2}y/) print $3}\'

Why I cannot get any output?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You should force POSIX to use {} in awk

echo xx y11y rrr | awk -W posix '{ if ($2 ~/y[1-5]{2}y/) print $3}'