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From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.awk
Subject: Re: printing words without newlines?
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 17:26:56 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <20240513100418.652@kylheku.com>,
Kaz Kylheku  <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
....
(This version more complicated than it needs to be, but essentially the
same as what I posted earlier)
>$ 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

But GNU extensions are good - especially since OP specifically mentioned
using GAWK.  And much more on-topic than Lisp (et al).

Final note: In fact, it has been established (on this newsgroup as well as
empirically by me and others) that if the indices are small integers, you
get sorting for free (in GAWK, which, as noted, is all we care about).  So,
you don't even really need to mess with PROCINFO[]...

And, one more note about sorting.  Some responders on this thread have
gotten confused about what is to be sorted.  They assumed that OP wanted
the words sorted (alphabetically), when, in fact, he just wants them sorted
(numerically) by the position number (the first field in the data line).

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