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From: Manuel Collado <mcollado2011@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: UID: Generating pointers in awk
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:03:00 +0200
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El 13/10/24 a las 20:19, Kaz Kylheku escribió:
> ...
> You can pass associative arrays down into functions, but not
> return them, or assign them from one variable to another.

Well, instead of
     arr = a_func(args)
you can modify a_func to have
     a_func(args, arr)

And it is customary to write a generic array copy function.
    a_copy(arr1, arr2)

HTH.