[BusyBox 0003864]: busybox awk: missing gawk extension "length(array)"

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=3864 
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Reported By:                manfred99
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   3864
Category:                   New Features
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             06-26-2008 06:47 PDT
Last Modified:              06-26-2008 06:47 PDT
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Summary:                    busybox awk: missing gawk extension "length(array)"
Description: 
as of gawk 3.1.5, the builtin function length() can be applied to arrays
and returns the number of array elements, e.g. 

# gawk 'BEGIN { split("1 2 3",a); print length(a) }'
3

busybox awk does not yet support this feature and returns "0".

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Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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06-26-08 06:47  manfred99      New Issue                                    
06-26-08 06:47  manfred99      Status                   new => assigned     
06-26-08 06:47  manfred99      Assigned To               => BusyBox         
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