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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Problem with getting awk to multiply a field by a value set based on condition of another field Post 303043630 by cotilloe on Sunday 2nd of February 2020 02:38:01 PM
Old 02-02-2020
Ahh!! Thanks for that info. It explains why I get the repeated output headers then. Also, I did not realize that about the END statement. I understood it as you do not perform anything in BEGIN, but never knew that calcs and stuff should be done before END.

My biggest issue is that I am not sure of how to take an associative array and have another array stored within it. Basically I need to have it be Student_Name[Assignment_Category{Assignment Scores] where it would look like this:

Steve
Lab --- Homework ----- Quiz ---- Final ----Survey
44 ---------- 98 ---------- 78 -------- 88 ------- 5
66 --------- 100 ---------- 85
77 ---------- 88 ---------- 92
86 ---------- 77 ---------- 77


So then I have all of Steve's assignments and their grades, then i can multiply each of the grades by the appropriate weight
 

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