how can i show the value when i divide a number where the dividend is greater then the divisor. for example...
3 divided by 15 ---> let x=3/15
when i do this in the shell environment it gives me an output of 0.
please help me.
thanks. (3 Replies)
I have a doubt with an error message, and i want to be sure if this is a normal situation or not.
Situation: I was formating and installing a SCSI 36Gb HD with UNIX SCO 5.05, the problem happens when is making the division and filesystem on disk 1, and the message error is "Exit value 139... (1 Reply)
hi
I am having two variables namely a=7 & b=8. I have to subtract these two variables. I am using the command
c=`expr $a / $b`
When I check the value of c, it comes out to be zero.
Please help.
Regards
Rochit (9 Replies)
Hi,
I am writing a script that among other things will be checking for various files on mount points. One of the conditions is that unless the server has failed over the df command will show root ( / ). If when checking the files the script comes across /, I want it to skip it, otherwise to... (2 Replies)
i have a script that is doing the following:
awk 'BEGIN {FS=","} ; {printf("%.10f",($5 - $2)/(3 * $3))}' data > test
now some records in $3 contain zeroes. i don't want to remove those records. is it possible to check for division by zero and then write a "N/A" for that record in the o/p... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am searching for a way to calculate for example 10/100 within a shellscript and the result should be 0.1 and not just 0.
Every alternative i tried just results 0
Thank you in advance
2retti (6 Replies)
I received error "awk: division by zero" while executing the following statement.
SunOS 5.10 Generic_142900-15 sun4us sparc FJSV,GPUZC-M
echo 8 | awk 'END {printf ("%d\n",NR/$1 + 0.5);}' file1.lst
awk: division by zero
Can someone provide solution?
Thanks
Please use code... (11 Replies)
I have a function that outputs 3 lines for each result and I want to know how many results there are.
so for example
function | wc -l
24
but I want to see the result 8.
so is there a easy way to divide the result? (5 Replies)
I have two text files T1 and T2
T1 looks as follows
Name All Maths Science English Social
Anie 48/18 = 2.7 44/17 = 2.6 20/6 = 3.3 24/11 = 2.2 NA
Edwin ... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
boolval
BOOLVAL(3) 1 BOOLVAL(3)boolval - Get the boolean value of a variableSYNOPSIS
boolean boolval (mixed $var)
DESCRIPTION
Returns the boolean value of $var.
PARAMETERS
o $var
- The scalar value being converted to a boolean.
RETURN VALUES
The boolean value of $var.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
boolval(3) examples
<?php
echo '0: '.(boolval(0) ? 'true' : 'false')."
";
echo '42: '.(boolval(42) ? 'true' : 'false')."
";
echo '0.0: '.(boolval(0.0) ? 'true' : 'false')."
";
echo '4.2: '.(boolval(4.2) ? 'true' : 'false')."
";
echo '"": '.(boolval("") ? 'true' : 'false')."
";
echo '"string": '.(boolval("string") ? 'true' : 'false')."
";
echo '"0": '.(boolval("0") ? 'true' : 'false')."
";
echo '"1": '.(boolval("1") ? 'true' : 'false')."
";
echo '[1, 2]: '.(boolval([1, 2]) ? 'true' : 'false')."
";
echo '[]: '.(boolval([]) ? 'true' : 'false')."
";
echo 'stdClass: '.(boolval(new stdClass) ? 'true' : 'false')."
";
?>
The above example will output:
0: false
42: true
0.0: false
4.2: true
"": false
"string": true
"0": false
"1": true
[1, 2]: true
[]: false
stdClass: true
SEE ALSO floatval(3), intval(3), strval(3), settype(3), is_bool(3), Type juggling.
PHP Documentation Group BOOLVAL(3)