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Arrays Arrays are data structure in which identical data types are stored. The arrays occupy the memory depending upon their size and have contiguous area of memory. We can access the arrays using the array index. To declare arrays, we have to give their data type, name and size. These are fixed-size arrays. The declaration of arrays is as follows: data_type    array_name [size] ; Consider the following program: void main(  ) {            int x[6];            int j;     for(j = 0; j < 6; j++)           {          x[j] = 2 * j;         }     } We have declared an int array of six elements and initialized it in the loop. Let�s revise some of the array concepts. The declaration of array is as int x[6]; or float x[6]; or double x[6]; You have already done these in your programming ...

Arrays in nawk test for existance and implicit creation of elements When using arrays in nawk I still stumble upon handling the test for existance wrongly. Consider this example: nawk '{for(i in u) print "1",i,u[i]; if(u["ab"]!="") print "ab exists"; for(i in u) print "2",i,u[i]}' This script should print all entries in array u then do a check if u["ab"] is non-empty and again print all entries in array u . Since there is no obvious assignment to u[] the assumption is that neither of the loops will print anything so it is somewhat unexpected that the first line of input will trigger a line of output: 2 ab i.e. the second loop finds an array element ab . Why? Because the test u["ab"]!="" implicitly created the array entry u["ab"] with an empty content. The correct way to test for existance which does not create an entry implicitly is like this: nawk '{for(i in u) print ...