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Old 05-22-2009
Problem with awk programming

i want to calculate power of 10 as follows:
coef=2.0588
ra1=$(awk 'BEGIN{print 10^$coef}')
it gives a result 1
when,
if i calculate
ra1=$(awk 'BEGIN{print 10^2.0588}')
it gives a result 114.499
what should i do?
# 2  
Old 05-22-2009
Code:
coef=2.0588
ra1=$(awk -v coef=$coef 'BEGIN {print 10^coef}')

or

Code:
coef=2.0588
ra1=$(awk 'BEGIN {print 10^'$coef'}')

# 3  
Old 05-22-2009
thank you, it worked out
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