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| From | Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.lang.awk, comp.lang.awk |
| Subject | Re: printing words without newlines? |
| Date | 2024-05-13 17:17 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <20240513100418.652@kylheku.com> (permalink) |
| References | <v1pi7c$2b87j$1@dont-email.me> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 2024-05-12, David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> wrote:
> # sample data.txt
> 2 your
> 1 all
> 3 base
> 5 belong
> 4 are
> 7 us
> 6 to
$ awk '{
if ($1 > max) max = $1;
rank[$1] = $2
}
END {
for (i = 1; i <= max; i++)
if (i in rank) {
printf("%s%s", sep, rank[i]);
sep = " "
}
print ""
}' data.txt
all your base are belong to us
We do not perform any sort, and so we don't require GNU extensions. Sorting is
silly, because data is already sorted: we are given the positional rank of
every word, which is a way of capturing order. All we have to do is visit the
words in that order.
We can do that by iterating an index i from 1 to the highest index
we have seen. If there is a rank[i] entry, then we print it.
(We do this "(i in rank)" check in case there are gaps in the rank
sequence.)
After we print one word, we start using the " " separator before all
subsequent words.
If we must sort, there is the sort utility:
$ sort -n data.txt | awk '{ printf("%s%s", sep, $2); sep = " " }' && echo
all your base are belong to us
Also, if we can suffer a spurious trailing space:
$ sort -n data.txt | awk '{ print $2 }' | tr '\n' ' ' && echo
all your base are belong to us
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