Hi, Upon finding out about this "quirk" in the awk language, if you are now horrified that you have loads of code that relies on this order, there is a temporary solution. Check out the WHINY_USERS environment variable:
https://linux.die.net/man/1/mawk In mawk and (apparently) undocumented in gawk. It ensures arrays are sorted when iterating through in this way. Hope this helps, Karsten
