Re: feature proposal: expand associative arrays in lexicographic order ...

On 8/25/26 10:06 AM, Stan Marsh wrote:

> FWIW, I could not figure out how to use the bash "asort" extension.


The following:

array=( zero one two three four five six)

declare -p array
# sort array in place by value lexicographically
asort array
declare -p array

array=( zero one two three four five six)

# sort array by value lexicographically and assign the indices in array
# corresponding to the sorted order to new
asort -i new array
declare -p new

produces

declare -a array=([0]="zero" [1]="one" [2]="two" [3]="three" [4]="four" 
[5]="five" [6]="six")
declare -a array=([0]="five" [1]="four" [2]="one" [3]="six" [4]="three" 
[5]="two" [6]="zero")
declare -a new=([0]="5" [1]="4" [2]="1" [3]="6" [4]="3" [5]="2" [6]="0")

Does this help?

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