Hi all, Awk has two kinds of variables: scalars which are strings or ints or floats, and arrays. Arrays are more like LUA tables or Python dicts or Perl hashes in that you can use any scalar as a subscript. Multidimensional arrays are doable but require care and attention.
The following code crashes, complaining that you're using array a in a scalar context: a[1] = "whatever" b = a A deepcopy operation is the only real way to copy an array in awk. So I've written deepcopy.awk as a demonstration of a working awk deepcopy function. See the code at http://troubleshooters.com/codecorn/awk/stuff/deepcopy.awk SteveT Steve Litt April 2018 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
