Exponents

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Exponents

Hi!

I have a set of numbers like this

Code:

 1192.0    0.219E+00
 1192.0   -0.446E-02
 1192.0    0.924E-01
 1192.0   -0.306E-01
 1192.0    0.105E-03
 1192.0    0.819E-01

Is there an easy way (with awk maybe?) to make all numbers in the second column have the same exponent.

Thanks!

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Try...

Code:

awk '{printf "%+fe-%02d\n", $2*(10^n), n}' n=2 file1

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