Hallo!
I'm brand new in programming and wanted to ask a question about the following. I have a file which looks like this:

*first_set
xx xx xx xx xx xx
xx xx xx xx xx xx
*second_set
yy yy yy yy yy yy
yy yy yy yy yy yy
yy yy yy yy yy yy
...
...
...
*last_set
zz zz zz zz zz zz
zz zz zz zz zz zz
zz zz zz zz zz zz

I want to separate each of this blocks. Then, printout the title of each of them , and sort the rest of the block and print it in the same format as the original file.
I have done the most with a simple code in AWK, writing the contains of the blocks in temporary files. The problem I have is precisely to read back this temp.files and print them with the same format as before.
I know that it can be done with getfile, but it simply does not work.
My code so far which does not work:
while ((getline <"sorted_"match".tempo" ) > 0)
{nr++
line[nr] = $0
}close("sorted_"match".tempo");
printf("10%s", line[nr])
}\


"match" is a counter which labels each of the temp.files with the block encounter in the file.
I appreciate very much some suggestions.

awk is an interesting choice for learning programming. The more I think about it, the more I like it.

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I added a line to set nr to 0 before the loop. Otherwise it will keep incrementing from the previous file.
Rather than compute the filename each time, lets use a variable and do it once.
If you don't print the line inside the loop, then it will only print the last line.
If you aren't using the array "line" later, then you can just print $0 and get rid of line.

Thanks! it was very useful. Although at the ende I decided for a more elegant solution just using pipes instead that making temporary files.