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sample of the data file:
Murray Saul:2725.9
David Ward:1370.24
Evan Weaver:356

solved

it worked
thanks alot

$ x=1
$ y=1.5
$ z=$((x*y))
bash: 1.5: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".5")

What's wrong?

Thank you very much Goldorakk
that worked
though i only used:
heading=`sed 's/$/<br \/>/' file2`

hi im trying a make simple html page with the content of some files
i have:
title=`cat "file1"`
heading=`cat "file2"`
para=`cat "file3"`
...

ok i will
thank you very much mate!
cheers:D

ye... i guess i didnt ask my question clearly...
lets say... what if the line to be printed contains two or more words
what will length() do? my guess is the total number of characters of that...

thank you very much Rubin, it works perfectly!
i have one more question, please:
so... length() in awk '{ pirnt $0 }'
will count the length of the entire line and print it out as line number?

I'm trying to find the longest word in /usr/share/dict/words
The first thing I can think of is to sort the content by length then it would be easy to find out, but then i realize theres no option of...