Re: How to initialize an associate array nicely with awk

On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:23:40 -0800, lihao0129@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> On Dec 8, 5:08 pm, Steffen Schuler <schuler.stef...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>> On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:57:53 -0800, lihao0...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> > I am trying to initialize an associate array with awk, for example,
>> > to map literal months to numeric months, I did something like:
>>
>> > BEGIN {
>> >     mon["Jan"] = 1; .....; mon["Dec"] = 12;
>> > }
>>
>> > Is there some other ways to do this with awk(gawk)?? for example, in
>> > Perl , I can do things like:
>>
>> >  my %mon = ();
>> >  @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 qw/Jan Feb Mar Apr May.... / } = (1..12);
>>
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > LH
>>
>> use:
>>
>> split("Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec", mon, " ")
>>
>>
> Hi, Steffen:
> thank you for your reply:) but this seems give me an array which has:
> 
>   mon[1] = "Jan"; mon[2] = "Feb"; .....
> 
> what I really want is:
> 
>   mon["Jan"] = 1; mon["Feb"] = 2; .....
> 
> Any other solution?? many thanks:)
> 
> LH
> 
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see also my last post.

use:

split("Jan Feb Mar Apr May....", moninv, " ")
for (i in mon) mon[moninv[i]] = i


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Steffen