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 asorti:

#!/usr/bin/env -S gawk -f
{
    score[$1] = $0;
    array[sprintf("%3s",$2) $1] = $1;
}

END {
    asorti(array, b)
    for(i in b)
    {
        name = array[b[i]]
        print score[name]
    }
}