Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi> writes:

> On Wed Mar 12 2003 at 10:24:02 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > and then printing it out in the other order. Awk only has 1D arrays I
> > believe. 
> 
> Not true:
> 
> brain-damage:6:~> echo 'a b'|awk '{a[1,1]=$1;a[1,2]=$2}END{print a[1,1],a[1,2]}'
> a b

Ah! Reading the manual, I find that although the arrays are 1D, you
can simulate more with the wacky concatenation facility:

   Arrays
       Arrays  are  subscripted with an expression between square
       brackets ([ and ]).  If the expression  is  an  expression
       list  (expr,  expr  ...)   then  the  array subscript is a
       string consisting of the  concatenation  of  the  (string)
       value  of  each  expression, separated by the value of the
       SUBSEP variable.  This facility is used to simulate multi-
       ply dimensioned arrays. For example:

              i = "A"; j = "B"; k = "C"
              x[i, j, k] = "hello, world\n"


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