RosettaCodeData/Task/Semordnilap/AWK/semordnilap.awk

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Awk

# syntax: GAWK -f SEMORDNILAP.AWK unixdict.txt
{ arr[$0]++ }
END {
PROCINFO["sorted_in"] = "@ind_str_asc"
for (word in arr) {
rword = ""
for (j=length(word); j>0; j--) {
rword = rword substr(word,j,1)
}
if (word == rword) { continue } # palindrome
if (rword in arr) {
if (word in shown || rword in shown) { continue }
shown[word]++
shown[rword]++
if (n++ < 5) { printf("%s %s\n",word,rword) }
}
}
printf("%d words\n",n)
exit(0)
}