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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Syntax error in subtraction in Bash Post 303040006 by wisecracker on Monday 21st of October 2019 01:35:04 PM
Old 10-21-2019
I am assuming you are using bash or perhaps a POSIX shell like dash.
Your error is telling you that it is not possible to do such a task as these shells have INTEGER arithmetic only.

If you need floating/fixed point arithmetic then you will have to do workarounds using, bc, dc, python, perl, awk or any other methods that are capable of such mechanisms.

(Just an observation, you have both, ${barr1[$i]} and also ${harr1[j]} are these correct?)

EDIT:
Note the second one should have ${harr1[$j]}

An example longhand using INTEGER arithmetic and FIXED point, OSX 10.14.6, default bash terminal:
Code:
Last login: Mon Oct 21 18:25:40 on ttys000
AMIGA:amiga~> x=.098765
AMIGA:amiga~> y=10.3
AMIGA:amiga~> x=$( printf "%.f" ${x}e+12 )
AMIGA:amiga~> y=$( printf "%.f" ${y}e+12 )
AMIGA:amiga~> printf "%.12f\n" $(( y - x ))e-12
10.201235000000
AMIGA:amiga~> _


Last edited by wisecracker; 10-21-2019 at 02:50 PM.. Reason: See EDIT:
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syntax(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       syntax(3pm)

NAME
syntax - Activate syntax extensions VERSION
version 0.004 SYNOPSIS
# either use syntax 'foo'; # or use syntax foo => { ... }; # or use syntax qw( foo bar ), baz => { ... }; DESCRIPTION
This module activates community provided syntax extensions to Perl. You pass it a feature name, and optionally a scalar with arguments, and the dispatching system will load and install the extension in your package. The import arguments are parsed with Data::OptList. There are no standardised options. Please consult the documentation for the specific syntax feature to find out about possible configuration options. The passed in feature names are simply transformed: "function" becomes Syntax::Feature::Function and "foo_bar" would become "Syntax::Feature::FooBar". METHODS
import syntax->import( @spec ); This method will dispatch the syntax extension setup to the specified feature handlers for the calling package. import_into syntax->import_into( $into, @spec ); Same as "import", but performs the setup in $into instead of the calling package. unimport syntax->unimport( @features ); This method will trigger uninstallations of the @features from the calling package. unimport_from syntax->unimport_from( $from, @features ); Same as "unimport", but will uninstall the @features from $from. RECOMMENDED FEATURES
o Syntax::Feature::Function Activates functions with parameter signatures. SEE ALSO
Syntax::Feature::Function, Devel::Declare BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-syntax@rt.cpan.org or through the web interface at: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=syntax AUTHOR
Robert 'phaylon' Sedlacek <rs@474.at> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Robert 'phaylon' Sedlacek. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-05-18 syntax(3pm)
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