Re: Five Ways to Reverse a String of Words (C#, Perl 5, Perl 6, Ruby, Haskell)

[Anonymous Monk]

A compacted awk one liner...

echo "  one   two three four    " | awk '{n=split($0,A);S=A[n];{for(i=
+n-1;i>0;i--)S=S" "A[i]}}END{print S}'

[runrig]

Here's another awk solution (different strategy, and slightly shorter when compacted - Update: this reverses every line, and if your's did the same, i.e, without the END block, it would still be shorter than this...oh well):

#!/bin/awk -f
{
  for (i=1; i<=NF/2; i++) {
    t=$i
    $i = $(NF-i+1)
    $(NF-i+1)=t
  }
  print
}