Typing and Comparison (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)

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6.3.2 Variable Typing and Comparison Expressions

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Unlike in other programming languages, in awk variables do not have a fixed type. Instead, they can be either a number or a string, depending upon the value that is assigned to them. We look now at how variables are typed, and how awk compares variables.

Variable Typing    String type versus numeric type.
Comparison Operators    The comparison operators.
POSIX String Comparison    String comparison with POSIX rules.