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avoiding using decimals works for the case I'm doing now but could you tell me WHY this is even a problem for awk?
And why are there certain decimal numbers (0.3, 0.7) that pose a...

Hi,
I was hoping someone could explain this please :)

I'm using bash, scientific linux... and I don't know what else you need to know. With


awk '{ if( 0.3 == 0.1*3) print $1}' file.dat

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So the tag for this forum says all newbies welcome...
All I want to do is go through my file and find lines which contain a given string of characters then replace these with a blank line. I really...

Thank you for such a quick reply - I should maybe have made my question a bit clearer.

1. This is useful thank-you!
However I was looking to access directly the elements of each line though, so...

No doubt these questions have been answered many times, but I struggled to find them - sorry. 2 questions:

1. I wish to read in a file one line at a time and do 'stuff' with it, such as:

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