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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Convert text to numerical Post 22787 by Perderabo on Monday 10th of June 2002 09:39:17 PM
Old 06-10-2002
First, please don't post your question in two parts in different areas of the forum like that. Post a followup to the original post if you need to add something. I have merged your posts into a single thread.

Now as for your question, you do not need to convery a string to numeric with ksh. It should work. But it sound like you variable "duplicate" is a filename. If so, you need to read the data from the file. If the file contains a single integer you can do this:

read num < $filename

if [[ $num -gt 1 ] ; then

If I have misunderstood, print out the value to see what we're dealing with:

echo duplicate = $duplicate

and post the results as a reply in this thread.
 

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PX_TIMESTAMP2STRING(3)					     Library Functions Manual					    PX_TIMESTAMP2STRING(3)

NAME
PX_timestamp2string -- Convert paradox timestamp into formated string SYNOPSIS
#include <paradox.h> char * PX_timestamp2string(pxdoc_t *pxdoc, double timestamp, const char *format) DESCRIPTION
Creates a string representation of a paradox timestamp as specified in the parameter format. The timestamp must be either retrieved with PX_get_data_double(3) after calling PX_get_record(3) or by simply using the double value in the pxval_t struct as returned by PX_retrieve_record(3). A timestamp contains both time and date information. The format string contains chars which stand for certain values of the date/time. The following table lists all available characters with a meaning. All other characters are being copied unmodified to the output string. If a special character shall not be interpreted it must be preceded with a backslash. Characters and their meaning in date/time format string Character Meaning Y year, numeric, 4 digits y year, numeric, 2 digits m month, numeric n month, numeric, no leading zeroes d day of the month, numeric j T{ day of the month, numeric, no leading zeros T} H hour, numeric, 24 hour format h hour, numeric, 12 hour format G T{ hour, numeric, 24 hour format, no leading zeroes T} g T{ hour, numeric, 12 hour format, no leading zeroes T} i minutes, numeric s seconds, numeric A AM/PM a am/pm L boolean for leap year RETURN VALUE
Returns pointer to string on success and NULL on failure. SEE ALSO
PX_time2string(3), PX_date2string(3) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx. PX_TIMESTAMP2STRING(3)
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