hello Bruce, > The first key of each second level is missing, which differs from your sample > output above. > Have I corrupted your Awk code, or have I misunderstood something, or what?
you just spotted a bug: the first subkey *is* indeed required. actually
fixing the bug makes the awk version even shorter.
fix () {
awk -F, '{print $1" "$2}' |
sort -u |
awk -F" " '
seen != $1 { seen = $1; print $1 }
{ print "\t"$2 }
'
}
regards
marc
