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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:41:51 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] awk, connect a string to a variable or a function
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On Thursday 20 of December 2012 08:44:36 Rudolf Sykora wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> awk doesn't have arrays with array members, which is what I now need.=



how about using two-level array?

BEGIN {
=09a["foo",1] =3D "abc"
=09a["foo",2] =3D "pqr"
=09a["foo",3] =3D "xyz"
=09a["bar",1] =3D "B1"
=09a["bar", 2] =3D "B2"
=09a["bar", 3] =3D "B3"
=09for (i in a)
=09=09if (i ~ "foo")
=09=09=09print a[i]
}



hope that helps,
--=20
dexen deVries

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