Issue with awk in cmd substitution with if

@Watnog

$ cat  29176129.sh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
LINE="MMECHJ-1 MMECHJ-1H P_PM43CEXP EXECUTING 19/03/2020 205814 19/03/2020 205814 LBKU01G SYS_BATCH 000000 100 0001093 0014704 19/03/2020 root 000 000 00 0013904"
echo "Value of LINE [$LINE]"
echo -n "Value of first column: "
echo "$LINE" | awk -F'-' '{ printf( "[%s]\n", $1); }'
echo -n "First column appended with -: "
echo "$LINE" | awk -F'-' '{ printf( "[%s]\n", $1"-"); }'
#We are using - as seperator and not space.
#Hence second column value is "1 MMECHJ"
echo -n "Second column: "
echo "$LINE" | awk -F'-' '{ printf( "[%s]\n", $2); }'
echo -n "First and second columns including -: "
echo "$LINE" | awk -F'-' '{ printf( "[%s-%s]\n", $1, $2); }'

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output:

$ ./29176129.sh
Value of LINE [MMECHJ-1 MMECHJ-1H P_PM43CEXP EXECUTING 19/03/2020 205814 19/03/2020 205814 LBKU01G SYS_BATCH 000000 100 0001093 0014704 19/03/2020 root 000 000 00 0013904]
Value of first column: [MMECHJ]
First column appended with -: [MMECHJ-]
Second column: [1 MMECHJ]
First and second columns including -: [MMECHJ-1 MMECHJ]

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Few more information:

$ cat  29176129.sh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#export PS4='$0 $LINENO:'
#set -x
LINE="MMECHJ-1 MMECHJ-1H P_PM43CEXP EXECUTING 19/03/2020 205814 19/03/2020 205814 LBKU01G SYS_BATCH 000000 100 0001093 0014704 19/03/2020 root 000 000 00 0013904"
if [[ $(echo $LINE | awk -F"-" '{ print $1"-" $2 }') == "MMECHJ-1" ]]
then
        session=$(echo "$LINE" | awk -F"-" '{ print $1"-"$2 }')
        uproc=$(echo "$LINE" | awk -F"-" '{ print $3"-"$4 }' | awk -F";" '{ print $1 }')
        echo "$session"
        echo "$uproc"
else
        echo "Exception Value using awk:"
        echo $LINE | awk -F"-" '{ print $1"-" $2 }'
fi
$ ./29176129.sh
Exception Value using awk:
MMECHJ-1 MMECHJ

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Thank you very much. I was overcomplicating things, default space sep does the job.
Appreciated all your feedback.
Cheers.

$ echo MOST wELcOME | /usr/bin/wc >/dev/null

HI all,

As murugesandins has demonstrated, his final solution of outputs:but Watnog asked for:Did you adjust his code to compensate for that, Watnog?

And what's the point in doing this, with the ";" separator?:I don't see any ";" in $LINE.
Why not just this kind of thing?:
Or don't use awk at all, like this:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

LINE="MMECHJ-1 MMECHJ-1H P_PM43CEXP EXECUTING 19/03/2020 205814 19/03/2020 205814 LBKU01G SYS_BATCH 000000 100 0001093 0014704 19/03/2020 root 000 000 00 0013904"

set -- $LINE
if [[ $1 == "MMECHJ-1" ]]
then
  session=$1
  uproc=$2
fi
echo $session
echo $uproc

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Or if you don't want to use "set -- ..." because you want to retain any parameters passed to the script, i.e. $1, $2, etc, how's this?:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

LINE="MMECHJ-1 MMECHJ-1H P_PM43CEXP EXECUTING 19/03/2020 205814 19/03/2020 205814 LBKU01G SYS_BATCH 000000 100 0001093 0014704 19/03/2020 root 000 000 00 0013904"

if [[ ${LINE%% *} == "MMECHJ-1" ]]
then
  session=${LINE%% *}
  uproc=$(echo $LINE | awk '{print $2}')
fi
echo $session
echo $uproc

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Both of the above return the following (in OpenBSD at least):
    MMECHJ-1
    MMECHJ-1H

And in that last one, instead of awk:you could use cut slightly more concisely:
Alternatively, I don't know about ksh on AIX, but in bash you can do it with an array like this:

#!/bin/bash

LINE="MMECHJ-1 MMECHJ-1H P_PM43CEXP EXECUTING 19/03/2020 205814 19/03/2020 205814 LBKU01G SYS_BATCH 000000 100 0001093 0014704 19/03/2020 root 000 000 00 0013904"

ARR=($LINE)
if [[ ${ARR[0]} == "MMECHJ-1" ]]
then
  session=${ARR[0]}
  uproc=${ARR[1]}
fi
echo $session
echo $uproc

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...but my personal favourite is to use a regular expression with bash:

#!/bin/bash 

LINE="MMECHJ-1 MMECHJ-1H P_PM43CEXP EXECUTING 19/03/2020 205814 19/03/2020 205814 LBKU01G SYS_BATCH 000000 100 0001093 0014704 19/03/2020 root 000 000 00 0013904"

regex='^(MMECHJ-1) ([^ ]*)'
if [[ $LINE =~ $regex ]]; then
  session=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
  uproc=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
fi
echo -e "$session\n$uproc"

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Output:
    MMECHJ-1
    MMECHJ-1H

To make that slightly shorter:

# These lines:
regex='^(MMECHJ-1) ([^ ]*)'
if [[ $LINE =~ $regex ]]; then

# can be shortened to this:
if [[ $LINE =~ ^(MMECHJ-1)\ ([^ ]*) ]]; then

# or this:
if [[ $LINE =~ ^(MMECHJ-1)' '([^ ]*) ]]; then

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See how the regex as a whole now can't be 'quoted', but that space in the middle of it had to be \escaped or 'quoted' to avoid a syntax error.