- how can you sort a[i] because i refers to a value not a position (i its not < or > because it will be Caps, Cols or Cans), and i cannot change it like in java or c when you do something like this:
but in this case i is a position or a value?, im so confused about this way to use vectors, if someone can explain a little or give me documentation about vectors in awk /unix i will apreciate it.
It helps if you tell us what Linux /UNIX you are using. Some awk implementations have asort() which is array sort. Other do not - so the correct answer for you depends on the system you are on.
Here are three ways to sort your array that should work even if you don't have gawk:
On Solaris/SunOS systems, use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or nawk instead of awk. On AIX or any other UNIX or Linux system, this should be fine as shown.
I have a shell script which uses an awk program inside. There is a variable $count inside an "if" loop which counts the no of iterations.
Now, how to print that $count value to file (or) how to export that value to a variable outside awk program. i.e, awk to shell ?
Please help.
I don't see what this has to do with sorting in awk (or nawk).
Please start a new thread to discuss this new issue and provide example code that is not working for you. ($count in a shell script is very different from $count in awk and nawk. You print a value explicitly in awk and nawk with a call to print or printf. There are lots of ways to print data implicitly depending on what you're doing.)
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I need help to sort string using awk. I don't want to use sed or perl as I want to add this functionality in my existing awk script
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&& > $fname
...
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