How to keep associative array order?

Question

I try to iterate over an associative array in Bash.

It seems to be simple, but the loop doesn\'t follow the initial order of the array.

Here is a simple scri

Answer 1

My approach is to create a sorted array of keys first:

keys=( $( echo ${!dict[@]} | tr ' ' $'\n' | sort ) )
for k in ${keys[@]}; do
    echo "$k=${dict[$k]}"
done