Re: gawk 3.1.5 array question...

[Jürgen Kahrs]

Jeff Chua wrote:

>         if(x["b"] == "a")    # <== this initializes x["b"] ???
>             print "ok";

Yes, this creates the "b" entry of x.
But "ok" is not printed.

> This is a bug or a feature? Notice that x["b"] was never defined ...

This is a documented feature.
Testing the existence of x["b"] is done like this:

 if (("b" in x) && x["b"] == "a")
   print "ok"