AWK programming question: print $1 | sort | ...

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Hello AWK users,

Is it possible to send an AWK selected output through a filter and then
reading the output of that filter back into an internal variable (array)
without using an intermediate temp file?

Basically what I want to do is something like

/TAG/ { print $1 | sort | getline Array[count++] }

but apparently you can’t use “double pipes”.

Does anybody have any suggestion on how to achieve this?

Thanks in advance,

regards,
rick

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FWIMC,

OK, I solved this (sort of) by porting GAWK 3.1.0 which has a builtin
asort() function.

thanks anyway,
rick

Rick Lake <rwlake@spamfree.domain.invalid> wrote:

Hello AWK users,

Is it possible to send an AWK selected output through a filter and then
reading the output of that filter back into an internal variable (array)
without using an intermediate temp file?

Basically what I want to do is something like

/TAG/ { print $1 | sort | getline Array[count++] }

but apparently you can’t use “double pipes”.

Does anybody have any suggestion on how to achieve this?

Thanks in advance,

regards,
rick