# anagram.awk --- An implementation of the anagram-finding algorithm # from Jon Bentley's "Programming Pearls," 2nd edition. # Addison Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-65788-0. # Column 2, Problem C, section 2.8, pp 18-20. # # This program requires gawk 4.0 or newer. # Required gawk-specific features: # - True multidimensional arrays # - split() with "" as separator splits out individual characters # - asort() and asorti() functions # # See https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gawk. # # Arnold Robbins # arnold@skeeve.com # Public Domain # January, 2011 /'s$/ { next } # Skip possessives { key = word2key($1) # Build signature data[key][$1] = $1 # Store word with signature } # word2key --- split word apart into letters, sort, and join back together function word2key(word, a, i, n, result) { n = split(word, a, "") asort(a) for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) result = result a[i] return result } END { sort = "sort" for (key in data) { # Sort words with same key nwords = asorti(data[key], words) if (nwords == 1) continue # And print. Minor glitch: trailing space at end of each line for (j = 1; j <= nwords; j++) printf("%s ", words[j]) | sort print "" | sort } close(sort) }