Array Sorting (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)
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12.2 Controlling Array Traversal and Array Sorting
gawk
lets you control the order in which a ‘for (indx in array)
’ loop traverses an array.
In addition, two built-in functions, asort()
and asorti()
, let you sort arrays based on the array values and indices, respectively. These two functions also provide control over the sorting criteria used to order the elements during sorting.
• Controlling Array Traversal | How to use PROCINFO["sorted_in"]. | |
• Array Sorting Functions | How to use asort() and asorti() .
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