Re: The GNU Awk User’s Guide: 8.1.6 Using Predefined Array Scanning Orders with gawk

[arnold]

Hi.

You are correct, thanks for pointing this out. I will
fix it.

In the future, please try to format code in a more standard
fashion - I found this impossible to read.

If your mailer mangled it, then I apologize.

Best wishes,

Arnold

Walter Bächi <privor@xn--walter-bchi-s8a.ch> wrote:

> Hi
>
> The following example is wrong:
>
>     /… if ("sorted_in" in PROCINFO) { save_sorted =
>     PROCINFO["sorted_in"] PROCINFO["sorted_in"] = "@val_str_desc" # or
>     whatever } … if (save_sorted) PROCINFO["sorted_in"] = save_sorted /
>
> It should be:
>
>     /… if ("sorted_in" in PROCINFO) *save_sorted =
>     PROCINFO["sorted_in"]****PROCINFO["sorted_in"] = "@val_str_desc"**#
>     or whatever* … if (save_sorted) PROCINFO["sorted_in"] = save_sorted /
>
> Otherwise it is useless aslong as/"sorted_in"/  is not defined before 
> in/PROCINFO/.
>
> Walter