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1. awk shell argument passing question

I need help on how to pass an argument to an AWK script.
I am running K-shell on a Sparcstation.
I want to type in something like: getfun1 loglex
where getfun1 is my shell script containing an AWK program.
The AWK program is to search for the string loglex.
I got it to work using the shell but could not make it
work using the ARGV[1] or variablename= in AWK.

The program below works:
------------------------------------------------------------------
awk " #double quotes allow shell to expand dollar 1 below
#usage: type this file name followed by functon name
#to search for e.g. getfun1 loglex
#the function declaration line will be printed
BEGIN   {
                print $1
                }
/^$1\(/ { # search for function name
                                "'print $0  '" # must protect dollar zero from shell
                                }
"
-------------------------------------------------------------------
I can't get any manner of myfunc=ARGV[1] etc to work, even though
I have read pp. 65-66 of the AWK book and tried using the
variable= option also.

Any help would be appreciated.  I couldn't
find any comp.lang.awk, so it ended up here.

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