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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Don't understand AWK asort behaviour Post 302575917 by jgilot on Wednesday 23rd of November 2011 08:21:29 AM
Old 11-23-2011
PHP Don't understand AWK asort behaviour

Hello,

I have the following script :

Code:
BEGIN {
print "1 ***";
  split("abc",T,""); 
  T[5]="e";
  T[26]="z";
  T[25]="y";
  for (i in T) printf("%i:%s ",i,T[i]);  print "";
  for (i=1; i<=length(T); i++) printf(T[i]); print ""

print "2 ***";
  asort(T,U);
  for (i in U) printf("%i:%s ",i,U[i]);  print "";
  for (i=1; i<=length(U); i++) printf(U[i]); print ""
}

and I don't understand the line following 2*** in the resulting display :

Code:
$ awk -f tst
1 ***
26:z 5:e 1:a 2:b 25:y 3:c 
abceyz
2 ***
26:z 17: 4: 18: 5: 19: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 20: 11: 21:a 12: 22:b 13: 23:c 14: 1: 24:e 15: 2: 25:y 16: 3: 
abceyz

I thought the result should have been : 1:a 2:b 3:c 4:e 5:y 6:z.

Where I am wrong ?
 

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NAME
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c-icap-config [ --cflags ] [ --libs ] [ --datarootdir ] [ --configdir ] [ --version ] [ --config ] DESCRIPTION
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