sort associative array in awk - help?
- by Richard
Hi all,
I have an associative array in awk that gets populated like this...
chr_count[$3]++
When I try to print my chr_counts I use this:
for (i in chr_count) {
print i,":",chr_count[i];
}
But not surprisingly, the order of i is not sorted in any way.
Is there an easy way to iterate over the sorted "keys" of chr_count?