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From: wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchel Wyle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: deallocating associative array memory in awk
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Date: 29 Aug 89 10:42:10 GMT
Reply-To: wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitch Wyle)
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Organization: Departement fuer Informatik, ETH Zuerich
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Is there some way to deallocate assoc arrays in old (Sun OS 4.0.3) awk?

a["foo"] = 1
...
for (w in a)
  free(a[w]) ????

Thanks,
-Mitchell F. Wyle
Institut fuer Informationssysteme         wyle@inf.ethz.ch 
ETH Zentrum / 8092 Zurich, Switzerland    +41 1 256 5237