Wrong Output On HTML Table From Nawk Script

Question

$3 is for the 3rd column of .txt which represents my email address column. Why is the following statement outputing "$3" rather than the email address?:

print "      <td><a href=mailto:>$3</a></td>"     

I am at a standstill.

Answer 1

Because you are printing a literal string, what you want is:

print "      <td><a href=mailto:>"$3"</a></td>"