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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sort String using awk Post 302892252 by Scrutinizer on Tuesday 11th of March 2014 06:08:13 PM
Old 03-11-2014
Try (using a bubble sort algorithm):
Code:
echo  " PQR, ABCddf, LMNS, AAAB "|
awk '
  {
    do {
      c="";
      for(i=1;i<NF;i++){
        if($i>$(i+1)){
          c=$i; $i=$(i+1); $(i+1)=c
        }
      }
    }
    while(c!="")
  }
  1
' FS=, OFS=,

or using GNU awk:
Code:
gawk '
  {
     n=split($0,F)
     asort(F)
     for(i=1; i<=n; i++) $i=F[i]
  }
  1
' FS=, OFS=,

It happens to go right with the spaces that are being used, but be either careful to leave out spaces or add some code to remove the spaces...
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 03-12-2014 at 08:00 PM.. Reason: optimization
 

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igawk

IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME

       igawk - gawk with include files

SYNOPSIS

       igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
       igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...

DESCRIPTION

       Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).

       AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like

	      @include getopt.awk

       in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.

OPTIONS

       See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.

EXAMPLES

       cat << EOF > test.awk
       @include getopt.awk

       BEGIN {
	    while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
		 ...
       }
       EOF

       igawk -f test.awk

SEE ALSO

       gawk(1)

       Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.

AUTHOR

       Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).

Free Software Foundation					    Nov 3 1999								  IGAWK(1)
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