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printing words without newlines?

From David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.lang.awk, comp.lang.awk
Subject printing words without newlines?
Followup-To alt.comp.lang.awk, comp.lang.awk
Date 2024-05-12 04:57 +0000
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I'm learning more AWK basics and wrote function to read file, sort, 
print.  I use GNU AWK (gawk) and its sort but printing is harder to get 
working than anything... separate lines work, but when I use printf() or 
set ORS then use print (for words one line) all awk outputs (on FreeBSD 
UNIX 14 and Slackware GNU/Linux 15) is a space (and not even newline 
before shell prompt)... is this normal (and I made mistake?) or am I 
approaching it wrong?  I recall BASIC prints new lines, but as I learned 
basic C and some derivatives, I'm used to newlines only being specified...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
# print_file_words.awk
# pass filename to function
BEGIN { print_file_words("data.txt"); }

# read two-column array from file and sort lines and print
function print_file_words(file) {
# set record separator then use print
# ORS=" "
  while(getline<file) arr[$1]=$0
  PROCINFO["sorted_in"]="@ind_num_asc"
  for(i in arr) 
  {
    split(arr[i],arr2)
    # output all words or on one line with ORS
    print arr2[2]
    # output all words on one line without needing ORS
    #printf("%s ",arr2[2])
  }
}
------------------------------------------------------------------------
# sample data.txt
2 your
1 all
3 base
5 belong
4 are
7 us
6 to

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printing words without newlines? David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2024-05-12 04:57 +0000
  Re: printing words without newlines? Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2024-05-12 09:52 +0100
    Re: printing words without newlines? Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2024-05-12 09:55 +0100
    Re: printing words without newlines? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-05-12 12:11 +0000
      Re: printing words without newlines? David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2024-05-13 02:04 +0000
      Re: printing words without newlines? Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-05-13 16:49 +0000
  Re: printing words without newlines? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-05-13 06:56 +0000
    Re: printing words without newlines? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-05-13 14:53 +0000
      Resurrecting an old thread (Was: printing words without newlines?) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-07-15 18:10 +0000
  Re: printing words without newlines? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-05-13 10:18 +0200
  Re: printing words without newlines? Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-05-13 17:17 +0000
    Re: printing words without newlines? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-05-13 17:26 +0000
      Re: printing words without newlines? Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-05-13 23:33 +0000
        Array indices are small integers? (Was: printing words without newlines?) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-05-14 13:40 +0000
  Re: printing words without newlines? Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com> - 2024-05-16 08:11 -0500
    Re: printing words without newlines? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-05-16 15:55 +0200
      Once upon a time... (Was: printing words without newlines?) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-05-16 14:15 +0000
        Re: Once upon a time... (Was: printing words without newlines?) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-05-16 15:17 +0000
      Re: printing words without newlines? Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com> - 2024-05-16 19:40 -0500

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