Sort associative array with AWK

Question

Here\'s my array (gawk script) :

myArray[\"peter\"] = 32
myArray[\"bob\"] = 5
myArray[\"john\"] = 463
myArray[\"jack\"] = 11

After sort, I

Answer 1

Use the Unix sort command with the pipe, keeps Awk code simple and follow Unix philosophy
Create a input file with values seperated by comma
peter,32
jack,11
john,463
bob,5

Create a sort.awk file with the code

BEGIN { FS=","; }
{
    myArray[$1]=$2;
}
END {
    for (name in myArray)
        printf ("%s,%d\n", name, myArray[name]) | "sort -t, -k2 -n"
}

Run the program, should give you the output
$ awk -f sort.awk data
bob,5
jack,11
peter,32
john,463