Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,
I wrote the following code to remove the value which are 0 in the input file (a columns if numbers).

Code:

awk 'BEGIN {
  for (i=1; i<=NF; i++)
    if ($i)
        printf("%13.6e\n",$i)
}' $1 >> $2

The script works if the zeros are written as

Code:

0.0000

but not as

Code:

0.000000e+00

In that case it creates an empty file, as all the values are zeros !?
Is there a way to make awk read the numbers in any format (integer, floating, scientific)?

What am I doing wrong?
Thank you,
Sarah

Remove "BEGIN"

I did remove BEGIN but it does not change the result

can you write this your input file?

Please post your input file and the desired output.

input1

Code:

0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
701.93
0.0000
356.39
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000

output1

Code:

701.93
356.39

input2

Code:

0.000000e+00
1.000000e+02
4.701600e+01
1.696800e+01
3.558200e+01

output2

Code:

1.000000e+02
4.701600e+01
1.696800e+01
3.558200e+01

Something like this should work IMHO:

Code:

awk '$0{printf("%13.6e\n",$i)}' file