On 19/07/18 12:30, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Segher Boessenkool: > >> What would the advantage of using Python be? I haven't heard any yet. >> Awk may be a bit clunky but at least it is easily readable for anyone. > > I'm not an experienced awk programmer, but I don't think plain awk > supports arrays of arrays, so there's really no good way to emulate > user-defined data types and structure the code. >
You can do multi-dimentional arrays in awk. They're flattened a bit like tcl ones are, but there are ways of iterating over a dimention. See, for example, config/arm/parsecpu.awk which gets up to tricks like that. R.
