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Old 07-21-2008
shamrock shamrock is offline Forum Advisor  
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Force awk to compare the string numerically...

Code:
echo 1234.2000 | awk '{print $0+0}'
1234.2
echo 1234.20 | awk '{print $0+0}'
1234.2