Sorting an associative array by key fails

[hancooper]

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On Wednesday, August 25, 2021 5:56 PM, Kerin Millar <kfm@plushkava.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:30:08 +0000
> hancooper via help-bash@gnu.org wrote:
>
> > I am populating an associative array, which I want to sort later by key for 
> > display purposes.
> > The sort will fail with the following code, because the sort gives
> > 1-0
> > 1-12
> > 1-15
> > 1-18
> > 1-21
> > 1-24
> > 1-27
> > 1-3
> > 1-30
> > 1-33
> > 1-36
> > 1-39
> > 1-42
> > 1-45
> > 1-48
> > 1-51
> > 1-54
> > 1-57
> > 1-6
> > 1-9
> > Somehow I need a function that I can pass a numeric value and returns me a 
> > string with
> > a tho appropriate nember of zeroes appended at the beginning (e.g. to get 
> > 1-00, 1-01, 1.02, ... ).
> > Here is the code.
> > local i
> > declare -A asc
> > for (( i = 0; i < ndlc; i++ )); do
> > k=$(( (i % nproc) + 1 ))
> > elm=${dlc[$i]} ; elm=${elm#*$'\t'} # remove size entry
> > asc[$k-$i]="$elm" # set dir name
> > (( vb >=3 )) && echo "asc[$k-$i]=dlc[$i]"
> > done
>
> Though non-portable: done | sort -V.
>
> Kerin Millar


It works well actually