Re: [bug-gawk] Help ourself

[david kerns]

oops, re-send w/ mail-list
probably the fastest/easiest is to use sort:
sort -n -k 1 f | awk ...

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 11:56 AM Budi <address@hidden> wrote:

> How poor I'm.. my need is the opposite,
>
> is there a way to force such string lines, the 1st field  to be
> treated as number so can get sorted numerically only this field then
> stop doing it for the rest of characters at that line
>
>
> On 4/24/19, david kerns <address@hidden> wrote:
> > awk is not strongly typed ... variables are what you coerce them into
> > being.
> > In the first example you assigned "a" pure numeric values.
> > In the second example you assigned "a" all strings (each value contains 2
> > spaces)
> > change your first example to this:
> >
> > awk '{a[NR]=$0 ""}END{ asort(a);for(;i++<NR;){ print a[i] }}' f
> >
> > and it will string sort too
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 9:41 AM Budi <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> We have facts that
> >> $ export LC_ALL=C
> >>
> >> $ cat f
> >> 2161
> >> 4321
> >> 6481
> >> 8641
> >> 10801
> >> 4321
> >> 8641
> >> 12961
> >> 17281
> >> 21601
> >>
> >> $ awk '{a[NR]=$0}END{ asort(a);for(;i++<NR;){ print a[i] }}' f
> >> 2161
> >> 4321
> >> 4321
> >> 6481
> >> 8641
> >> 8641
> >> 10801
> >> 12961
> >> 17281
> >> 21601
> >>
> >> One would accept as it's a number sort
> >>
> >> $ cat f
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 2161
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 4321
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 6481
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 8641
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 10801
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 4321
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 8641
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 12961
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 17281
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 21601
> >>
> >>
> >> $ awk '{a[NR]=$0}END{ asort(a);for(;i++<NR;){ print a[i]}}' f
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 10801
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 12961
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 17281
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 21601
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 2161
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 4321
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 4321
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 6481
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 8641
> >> 36829.00 37145.00 8641
> >>
> >> One would accept as it's a string sort
> >>
> >> How to resolve this confusing processes ?
> >>
> >>
> >
>