Array Basics (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)

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8.1 The Basics of Arrays

This section presents the basics: working with elements in arrays one at a time, and traversing all of the elements in an array.

• Array Intro		Introduction to Arrays
• Reference to Elements		How to examine one element of an array.
• Assigning Elements		How to change an element of an array.
• Array Example		Basic Example of an Array
• Scanning an Array		A variation of the for statement. It loops through the indices of an array’s existing elements.
• Controlling Scanning		Controlling the order in which arrays are scanned.