It is OK to use a strnum as a string array subscript, since we now respect the string value.

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diff --git a/test/arrayind3.awk b/test/arrayind3.awk
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+BEGIN {
+	# initialize cint arrays
+        pos[0] = 0
+        posout[0] = 0
+        split("00000779770060", f)      # f[1] is a strnum
+        pos[f[1]] = 1                   # subscripts must be strings!
+        for (x in pos) {
+                # if x is a strnum, then the
+                # x != 0 test may convert it to an integral NUMBER,
+		# and we might lose the unusual string representation
+		# if the cint code is not careful to recognize that this is
+		# actually a string
+                if (x != 0)
+                        posout[x] = pos[x]
+        }
+        # which array element is populated?
+        print posout[779770060]
+        print posout["00000779770060"]
+}