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

And the simple answer...

function sort_by_myArray(i1, v1, i2, v2) {
    return myArray[i2] < myArray[i1];
}

BEGIN {
    myArray["peter"] = 32;
    myArray["bob"] = 5;
    myArray["john"] = 463;
    myArray["jack"] = 11;
    len = length(myArray);

    asorti(myArray, k, "sort_by_myArray");

    # Print result.
    for(n = 1; n <= len; ++n) {
            print k[n], myArray[k[n]]
    }
}