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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Converting String To Integer/Float (weird case) Post 302989288 by sekfarok on Tuesday 10th of January 2017 10:58:13 PM
Old 01-10-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Try
Code:
awk '{X = substr ($1,7,9); sub (/^0+/, "", X); print X}' file
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-123
234
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Thank you so much. tested your solutions and it works. all my calculations are correct too now SmilieSmilie
 

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NumberFormatter::parseCurrency - Parse a currency number

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
public float NumberFormatter::parseCurrency (string $value, string &$currency, [int &$position]) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style float numfmt_parse_currency (NumberFormatter $fmt, string $value, string &$currency, [int &$position]) Parse a string into a double and a currency using the current formatter. PARAMETERS
o $fmt -NumberFormatter object. o $currency - Parameter to receive the currency name (3-letter ISO 4217 currency code). o $position - Offset in the string at which to begin parsing. On return, this value will hold the offset at which parsing ended. RETURN VALUES
The parsed numeric value or FALSE on error. EXAMPLES
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numfmt_get_error_code(3), numfmt_parse(3), numfmt_format_currency(3). PHP Documentation Group NUMFMT_PARSE_CURRENCY(3)
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