source: trunk/essentials/sys-apps/gawk/test/fnparydl.awk

# fnparydl.awk --- check that deleting works with arrays
#                  that are parameters.
#
# Tue Jul 11 14:20:58 EDT 2000

function delit(a,       k)
{
        print "BEFORE LOOP"
        for (k in a) {
                print "DELETING KEY", k
                delete a[k]
        }
        print "AFTER LOOP"
}

BEGIN {
        for (i = 1 ; i <= 7; i++) {
                q[i] = sprintf("element %d", i)
                x[i] = i
                y[i] = q[i]
        }
#       adump(q)
        delit(q)
#       for (i in q)
#               delete q[i]
        j = 0;
        for (i in q)
                j++
        print j, "elements still in q[]"
#       adump(q)
}