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Old 10-06-2011
Problem with numbers in exponential format

Hi

I have a shell scribt with some numbers in exponential format, for example, "1.23456789E +01" Now I would like to bring these numbers into a format without the E. Can someone help me

Thanks

Flo

---------- Post updated at 10:07 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:14 AM ----------

i found a solution in this forum :-)
Code:
var=13.165
newvar=$(printf "%.0f" $var)


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