03-27-2002
I have one sugestion. Use the awk language to solve this problem. Look this :
[witt@root]$ echo 3 15 | awk '{ print $1/$2}'
0.2
[witt@roto]$ echo 1 15 | awk '{ print $1/$2}'
0.0666667
In your script :
result=`echo 3 15 | awk '{ print $1/$2}'`
echo $result
I hope help you
Witt
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echo - Output one or more strings
SYNOPSIS
void echo (string $arg1, [string $...])
DESCRIPTION
Outputs all parameters.
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I have <?=$foo?> foo.
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-
RETURN VALUES
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Example #1
echo examples
<?php
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echo "Escaping characters is done "Like this".";
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