Re: printing words without newlines?

In article <v1pi7c$2b87j$1@dont-email.me>,
David Chmelik  <dchmelik@gmail.com> wrote:
...

# print_file_words.awk
# pass filename to function
BEGIN { print_file_words("data.txt"); }
>
# read two-column array from file and sort lines and print
function print_file_words(file) {
# set record separator then use print
# ORS=" "
 while(getline<file) arr[$1]=$0
 PROCINFO["sorted_in"]="@ind_num_asc"
 for(i in arr)
 {
   split(arr[i],arr2)
   # output all words or on one line with ORS
   print arr2[2]
   # output all words on one line without needing ORS
   #printf("%s ",arr2[2])
 }
}
------------------------------------------------------------------------
# sample data.txt
2 your
1 all
3 base
5 belong
4 are
7 us
6 to

I guess this is what you actually want:

{ A[$1] = $2 }
END {
    len = length(A)
    for (i=1; i<=len; i++)
printf("%s%s",A[i],i<len ? " " : "\n")
    }

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