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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting problem with AWK and floats below 0 Post 302298300 by JCastro on Tuesday 17th of March 2009 07:51:26 AM
Old 03-17-2009
No, It seems not to be working ok. I think that my spanish "locale" configuration may be related with the cause. But maybe any solution involving "format" specification in the inputs?.
As far I know, AWK stores data as 'strings', and makes automatically the numeric conversion if a valid numeric string is found. So Is there any specific instruction to do it manually? I said, for example, conserve the complete string and make the numeric conversion in a second step?
Many Thanks again.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

igawk

IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME

       igawk - gawk with include files

SYNOPSIS

       igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
       igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...

DESCRIPTION

       Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).

       AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like

	      @include getopt.awk

       in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.

OPTIONS

       See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.

EXAMPLES

       cat << EOF > test.awk
       @include getopt.awk

       BEGIN {
	    while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
		 ...
       }
       EOF

       igawk -f test.awk

SEE ALSO

       gawk(1)

       Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.

AUTHOR

       Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).

Free Software Foundation					    Nov 3 1999								  IGAWK(1)
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