08-18-2008
Thanks all, in case you are interested -- I ended up using sed:
floatVar1=$(echo $Var1 | sed 's/\([0-9]*\(\.[0-9]*\)\?\)[eE]+\?\(-\?[0-9]*\)/(\1*10^\3)/g;s/^/scale=30;/'| bc)
There are some difficulties with the specific scientific notation my data files were using. (having an extra + after the E, 1.00e+1 = 10), so I had trouble getting bc to work, but I may have just messed up. However, the idea behind the question was supposed to be specifically how to convert something from scientific notation to float. Sorry for the confusion.
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NAME
fixnt - Filter for the Windows NT postscript printer driver.
SYNOPSIS
fixnt < BADFILE.ps > GOODFILE.ps
DESCRIPTION
The Windows NT postscript driver has a tendency to make broken postscript files, that are incompatible with psutils. fixnt is a filter
that fixes these problems, allowing the use of psnup(1).
The filter takes the broken postscript file on stdin, and outputs a fixed postscript file on stdout. It has no other form for invocation
and takes no options on the command-line.
OPTIONS
fixnt takes no options.
BUGS
fixnt does not check for NTPSOct94. For a workaround, use a sed(1) command to replace 'NTPSOct94' with 'NTPSOct95', like so:
sed 's/NTPSOct94/NTPSOct95/g'
This is particularly important for Windows NT 3.5 users.
AUTHOR
fixnt was written by Holger Bauer <Holger.Bauer@topmail.de>, Michael Rath <rath@itsm.uni-stuttgart.de>, and Akim Demaille
<demaille@inf.enst.fr>.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to the Authors, but avoid sending large postscript files.
Patches are always welcome; send to <bauer@itsm.uni-stuttgart.de>.
SEE ALSO
psnup(1), sed(1)
a2ps February 2003 fixnt(1)