Sort associative array with AWK

Question

Here\'s my array (gawk script) :

myArray[\"peter\"] = 32
myArray[\"bob\"] = 5
myArray[\"john\"] = 463
myArray[\"jack\"] = 11

After sort, I

Answer 1

The authors of The Awk Programming Language provide a quicksort function, which is available online.

I think you'd do something like this.

END {
  for (key in myArray) {
    sortkeys[j++] = key;
  }
  qsort(sortkeys, 0, length(myArray));      # Not sure I got the args right.
  for (i = 1; i <= length(myArray); i++) {
    print sortkeys[i], myArray[sortkeys[i]];
  }
}