diff --git a/editors/awk.c b/editors/awk.c
index 77784dfc1..8848d94a5 100644
--- a/editors/awk.c
+++ b/editors/awk.c
@@ -2784,8 +2784,16 @@ static var *evaluate(node *op, var *res)
 				break;
 
 			case F_le:
-				if (!op1)
+				debug_printf_eval("length: L.s:'%s'\n", L.s);
+				if (!op1) {
 					L.s = getvar_s(intvar[F0]);
+					debug_printf_eval("length: L.s='%s'\n", L.s);
+				}
+				else if (L.v->type & VF_ARRAY) {
+					R_d = L.v->x.array->nel;
+					debug_printf_eval("length: array_len:%d\n", L.v->x.array->nel);
+					break;
+				}
 				R_d = strlen(L.s);
 				break;
 
diff --git a/testsuite/awk.tests b/testsuite/awk.tests
index 6af6072b8..a02302405 100755
--- a/testsuite/awk.tests
+++ b/testsuite/awk.tests
@@ -274,6 +274,11 @@ testing "awk large integer" \
 	"2147483647 2147483647 0 2147483648 2147483648 0\n" \
 	"" ""
 
+testing "awk length(array)" \
+	"awk 'BEGIN{ A[1]=2; A["qwe"]="asd"; print length(A)}'" \
+	"2\n" \
+	"" ""
+
 # testing "description" "command" "result" "infile" "stdin"
 
 exit $FAILCOUNT