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The authors find sufficient and necessary conditions for the weighted Hardy operator \[ H_{v,w}f(x)=v(x)\int_0^xf(t)\,w(t)\,dt \] (\(v, w\) weights) to be bounded or compact from \(L^{p(\cdot)}(I)\) to \(L^{q(\cdot)}(I)\), where \(I=[0,1]\) or \(I=[0,\infty)\). Recall that \(L^{r(\cdot)}(I)\) denotes the Lebesgue space with variable exponent \(r\), where \(r: I\to[1,\infty]\) is a measurable function (see \textit{O.~Kováčik} and \textit{J.~Rákosník} [Czech.\ Math.\ J.\ 41(116), No.~4, 592--618) (1991; Zbl 0784.46029)]). The authors study only the Muckenhoupt case, which means in this context that \[ 1< {\text{ess\, inf}}_{x\in I}p(x) \leq {\text{ess\, inf}}_{y\in[0,x]}p(y) \leq q(x) \leq {\text{ess\, sup}}_{x\in I}q(x) <\infty. \] They also investigate the distance of the operator \(H_{v,w}\) from the space of finite rank operators. Corresponding results for the associate operator to \(H_{v,w}\) on \([0,1]\) and on \([0,\infty)\) are also derived.