[bug-gawk] "The GNU AWK User's Guide" Section 11.2.1.2 - example program error, maybe

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I believe I've found a problem with an example program in "The GNU AWK User's 
Guide"
Section 11.2.1.2 Controlling Array Scanning Order


The example appears to have 2 problems:

  $ gawk 'BEGIN {
     >    a[4] = 4
     >    a[3] = 3
     >    for (i in a)
     >        print i, a[i]
     > }'
     -| 4 4
     -| 3 3
     $ gawk 'BEGIN {
     >    PROCINFO["sorted_in"] = "@str_ind_asc"
     >    a[4] = 4
     >    a[3] = 3
     >    for (i in a)
     >        print i, a[i]
     > }'
     -| 3 3
     -| 4 4
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In line 10, of the example, I believe the author meant to use the special value 
="@ind_str_asc"

The other issue is that I have run these routines on two systems and the 
results are the same 

> 4  4
> 3  3 
unlike the example, where the second run sorts the rows in ascending order.



Here is a copy of my execution with a variation in the assigned values for my 
clarification:

>{252}: cat proc.bsh
  gawk 'BEGIN {
         a[4] = 4
         a[3] = 3
         for (i in a)
             print i, a[i]
      }'
gawk 'BEGIN {
         PROCINFO["sorted_in"] = "@ind_str_asc"
         a[4] = 40
         a[3] = 30
         for (i in a)
             print i, a[i]
      }'
>{253}: bash proc.bsh
4 4
3 3
4 40
3 30

>{254}:gawk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.5

>{256}: uname -a
Linux  2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:51:48 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 
GNU/Linux

I am a newbie with awk and especially gawk, so it's very possible that I missed 
the authors intent.

Hope this is helpful.

thx
-The Hobbit (aka Frank)