* [9fans] awk, connect a string to a variable or a function
@ 2012-12-20 7:44 Rudolf Sykora
2012-12-20 8:41 ` dexen deVries
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From: Rudolf Sykora @ 2012-12-20 7:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Hello,
awk doesn't have arrays with array members, which is what I now need.
However, if I could make some connection between a string, e.g. "foo"
and an array 'foo', this would be enough. I reckon gawk can do sth. like
that. But is there any possible workaround in the traditional awk?
Can anybody comment on this?
Thanks!
Ruda
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* Re: [9fans] awk, connect a string to a variable or a function
2012-12-20 7:44 [9fans] awk, connect a string to a variable or a function Rudolf Sykora
@ 2012-12-20 8:41 ` dexen deVries
2012-12-20 14:58 ` Rudolf Sykora
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From: dexen deVries @ 2012-12-20 8:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
On Thursday 20 of December 2012 08:44:36 Rudolf Sykora wrote:
> Hello,
>
> awk doesn't have arrays with array members, which is what I now need.
how about using two-level array?
BEGIN {
a["foo",1] = "abc"
a["foo",2] = "pqr"
a["foo",3] = "xyz"
a["bar",1] = "B1"
a["bar", 2] = "B2"
a["bar", 3] = "B3"
for (i in a)
if (i ~ "foo")
print a[i]
}
hope that helps,
--
dexen deVries
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Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity.
-- Alvy Ray Smith
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