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Old 08-30-2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ranj@chn View Post
Code:
awk -f temp.awk tempfile
where temp.awk is
Code:
{ for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) { sum[i]+=$i } }
END { for (i in sum) {printf("%f\t", sum[i]/NR) } }
ranj,
when iterating through an array 'sum' with the index of 'i', the order of the iteration is indeterminant, i.e. don't assume that 'i' will go from '1' to 'NF'.