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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi
index 5d1e45c6..32602505 100644
--- a/doc/gawk.texi
+++ b/doc/gawk.texi
@@ -27238,10 +27238,9 @@ is true because locale-based comparison occurs only when in
POSIX-compatibility mode, and because @code{asort()} and @code{asorti()} are
@command{gawk} extensions, they are not available in that case.}
-The following example demonstrates the use of a comparison function
-with @code{asort()}. The comparison function,
-@code{case_fold_compare()}, does a string comparison ignoring case
-(by mapping both values to lowercase).
+The following example demonstrates the use of a comparison function with
+@code{asort()}. The comparison function, @code{case_fold_compare()}, maps
+both values to lowercase in order to compare them ignoring case.
@example
# case_fold_compare --- compare as strings, ignoring case
@@ -27272,9 +27271,10 @@ BEGIN @{
asort(data, result, "case_fold_compare")
- for (i = 1; i <= 52; i++) @{
+ j = length(result)
+ for (i = 1; i <= j; i++) @{
printf("%s", result[i])
- if (i % 26 == 0)
+ if (i % (j/2) == 0)
printf("\n")
else
printf(" ")