Re: [bug-gawk] Help ourself

[Budi]

How to have value of true literal string of regex patterned FS ?
Can be requested as a feature if not able to?

On 4/24/19, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is correct. When the input line has a single numeric value,
> gawk turns it into a number. With multiple values, the line is treated
> as a string.
>
> Arnold
>
> 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 ?
>> >
>> >
>