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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Decimal numbers and letters in the same collums: round numbers Post 302988531 by RudiC on Tuesday 27th of December 2016 03:26:03 PM
Old 12-27-2016
Not too far off RavinderSingh13's proposal, but with some added felxibility rg. field width, still e.g. some error checking missing :
Code:
awk -F, 'function FMT(PAR) {return "%" (PAR~/[^0-9. -]/?"*s":"0.*f")} {gsub(/ /,_); printf FMT($2) FS FMT($4) RS, 2, $2, 0, $4}' file
0.25,0
0.59,10
nd,8
10.46,n3d5
-12.46,-9

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PAR::SetupTemp(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 PAR::SetupTemp(3)

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Routines to setup the "PAR_TEMP" environment variable. The documentation of how the temporary directories are handled is currently scattered across the "PAR" manual and the "PAR::Environment" manual. The "set_par_temp_env()" subroutine sets up the "PAR_TEMP" environment variable. SEE ALSO
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