[SOLVED] printing array in awk

ghantauke · 11-24-2010, 08:10 AM

is there anyway i can print out all elements of an array in awk without knowing what the indices are? or even indices and elements pairs for that matter. i thought about using a for loop but without knowing what the indices are i don't know how to do it.

colucix · 11-24-2010, 08:14 AM

If the indices are numeric and sorted

Code:

for (i = 1; i <= length(array); i++)
    print i, array[i]

Actually the length function was implemented to return the length of a string. Since gawk version 3.1.5, if the argument is an array, it returns the number of elements stored in the array.

If the indices are made of unsorted alphanumeric strings you can simply do

Code:

for (i in array)
    print i, array[i]

ghantauke · 11-24-2010, 08:20 AM

nevermind guess you edited your post ^^

PTrenholme · 11-24-2010, 09:16 AM

For what it's worth, even if you have a multi-dimensional array a simple change to colucix's suggestion could be used:

Code:

for (index in array) {
    readable_index=gensub(SUBSEP,", ","G",index)
    print "array["readable_index"] = " array[index]
}

You might want to look at the asort and asorti functions if the order of the array elements is of significance.

Note: Some of the above is specific to gawk, and may not be portable.