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# 15  
Old 02-03-2012
The Corona688 method didn't work. Probably it's just a problem with EastEuropean coding of signs or some other minor thing like that. I'll change the dots into comas and will use the file only for analysis.

Thanks everyone for replaying and trying to help, really appreciate it! Smilie
# 16  
Old 02-03-2012
@grincz, there is one thing I don't understand. You linked a file and there were no commas. And script seems to give the correct output.

Why don't you paste your input data and check the reason the script is failing.

Regards,
Birei.
# 17  
Old 02-03-2012
Exactly there were no commas instead there were dots [this way the script wasn't working on my system] and after changing all the dots into commas script started to work. As I mentioned before I'm on a mac and probably this is the fault of the differences in the functioning of the script.

The input data which I pasted before is good representation of whole input file - with dots the script wasn't working on neither and with commas it works on both.

I think that for further work it would be good if I will install linux distribution Smilie

Take care Smilie
# 18  
Old 02-03-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by grincz
Exactly there were no commas instead there were dots [this way the script wasn't working on my system] and after changing all the dots into commas script started to work.
You mean, you had to turn 59.680 into 59,680 for it to be taken as a floating point number?

That probably has more to do with your locale/language settings than your version of awk!
# 19  
Old 02-03-2012
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Originally Posted by Corona688
You mean, you had to turn 59.680 into 59,680 for it to be taken as a floating point number?
Exactly!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
That probably has more to do with your locale/language settings than your version of awk!
I think so too...
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