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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Comparison of floating point numbers in bash Post 303040052 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 22nd of October 2019 04:26:31 PM
Old 10-22-2019
Use bc

Code:
if (( $(echo "$num1 > $num2" |bc -l) )); then
  echo "ok"
fi


bc does floating point comparisons, in bash you have to surround it with (( )) to get a boolean (true/false) result.
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ODBC_NEXT_RESULT(3)							 1						       ODBC_NEXT_RESULT(3)

odbc_next_result - Checks if multiple results are available

SYNOPSIS
bool odbc_next_result (resource $result_id) DESCRIPTION
Checks if there are more result sets available as well as allowing access to the next result set via odbc_fetch_array(3), odbc_fetch_row(3), odbc_result(3), etc. PARAMETERS
o $result_id - The result identifier. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE if there are more result sets, FALSE otherwise. EXAMPLES
Example #1 odbc_next_result(3) <?php $r_Connection = odbc_connect($dsn, $username, $password); $s_SQL = <<<END_SQL SELECT 'A' SELECT 'B' SELECT 'C' END_SQL; $r_Results = odbc_exec($r_Connection, $s_SQL); $a_Row1 = odbc_fetch_array($r_Results); $a_Row2 = odbc_fetch_array($r_Results); echo "Dump first result set"; var_dump($a_Row1, $a_Row2); echo "Get second results set "; var_dump(odbc_next_result($r_Results)); $a_Row1 = odbc_fetch_array($r_Results); $a_Row2 = odbc_fetch_array($r_Results); echo "Dump second result set "; var_dump($a_Row1, $a_Row2); echo "Get third results set "; var_dump(odbc_next_result($r_Results)); $a_Row1 = odbc_fetch_array($r_Results); $a_Row2 = odbc_fetch_array($r_Results); echo "Dump third result set "; var_dump($a_Row1, $a_Row2); echo "Try for a fourth result set "; var_dump(odbc_next_result($r_Results)); ?> The above example will output: Dump first result set array(1) { ["A"]=> string(1) "A" } bool(false) Get second results set bool(true) Dump second result set array(1) { ["B"]=> string(1) "B" } bool(false) Get third results set bool(true) Dump third result set array(1) { ["C"]=> string(1) "C" } bool(false) Try for a fourth result set bool(false) PHP Documentation Group ODBC_NEXT_RESULT(3)
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