Simple trouble with awk and regex

Question

 echo xx y11y rrr | awk \'{ if ($2 ~/y[1-5]{2}y/) print $3}\'

Why I cannot get any output?

Thank you.

Answer 1

On my machine:

$ echo xx y11y rrr | awk '{ if ($2 ~/y[1-5]{2}y/) print $3}'
rrr

Was this what you wanted? I'm using GNU awk 4.0.0 in Cygwin on Windows XP.