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Test variable if its string or not

I'm writing a script which will have some arguments and so I am using getopts but i want to solve the problem with one argument. I use a switch, for example -d, and I want the argument for -d will ...
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Can awk use field identifiers also for shell strings (variables)?

Well, this apparently is not possible the way I'm trying it. This alternate approach to obtain bar as a resulting string works, though: #!/bin/bash path1=/usr/tmp/foo/bar/baz awk -F/ '{print $5}' ...