function init(a) { a[1] = "aardvark" a[2] = "animal" a[3] = "zebra" a[4] = "zoo" a[5] = "Iguana" a[6] = "Alligator" a[7] = "Nouns" a[8] = "people" } BEGIN { for (IGNORECASE = 0; IGNORECASE < 2; IGNORECASE++) { init(a) n = asort(a) for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) printf("a[%d] = \"%s\"\n", i, a[i]) print "============" } }