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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk to split string Post 302348953 by EAGL€ on Sunday 30th of August 2009 01:59:24 PM
Old 08-30-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by beetel
hi ppl,
I have a basic doubt as to how shell treats strings.
e.g:given a line of data like this "5","6","45","77","89"
extracting the value from each field to a variable will conatin a string("5") or just the number?
If it conatins "5", how do we perform mathematical operations with that variable?
Beetel you should create a new thread for your question as it is not related to this thread. I'd recommend you to read forum rules and stroll around here to find out about the forum..
 

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