Zero padding a Number before and after a decimal place
Hi I was hoping someone could help me with a sed script I am trying to write? I am on a Mac running ElCapitan
I have some text that I have converted from a pdf that I want to format into an xml file.
In the file I have managed to delete all the text I do not need. The text I have left is Identified with an x and y coordinate at the beginning of the line, for its position on the page from the bottom left where x is 0 & y is 0. This is fortunate for me as everything with the same x coordinate is under the same column and every thing with the same y coordinate is on the same line.
My problem is I need to do a sort on these lines to get them in an order that I can use. I also need to append the y coordinates on page 2 onward with an 02 to 99 to denote the page it is on and to make sure when I do the sort items from page 2 onward stay in the correct page order.
This is an example of the text I have to work with
I wanted to create leading and trailing zeros so that the decimal place will continue to be in the same position from the left I was thinking that 6 places before the decimal point and after would probably work fine and leave some wiggle room if I come across something unexpected. Hopefully the text after would appear as
I am fine with creating the script to append a page number at the start of the number But I just can not seem to get the leading and trailing zeros where they need to be. If you could point me in the right direction or give me some suggestions to try I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me.
Thank you very much Paul
@RudiC, when experimenting I could not get that to work aerlier using +0. Your approach of a small number seems to work.
I found though that if the value is too small then it does not work again, i.e. 1E-12 works, but 1E-13 does not. So One would need to choose carefully, so perhaps it is better not to rely on this..
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Dear all,
I have a file call test.txt which has 2000 columns, 1000 rows. If I want to trim all the columns to 3 decimal places, how can I do it? I know how to use awk prinf to trim specic columns. But I don't know how to trim all the columns. Thank you.
data sample:
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Hi Experts,
I have requirement to pad a decimal number that should have fixed length as 10.
if number is 234.234 > 234.234000
if number is 12.4 > 12.4000000
if number is 3456.5678 > 3456.56780
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Hi,
I have one input file which is delimited by pipe. I want to put decimal points in this input file at particular position in particular column and also get the negative sign (if any) at start of that column.
$ cat Input_file.txt
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Dear all,
I have a data test.txt as below.
X22.30799720_T cg03868770 -0.5645412582127 2.4084685750406e-175
X22.30781182_A cg03868770 -0.5620426397492 3.5818034129169e-172
X22.30780724_C cg03868770 -0.5616890165605 2.9765569717858e-168
what I want is:
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Hi,
I have an issue converting decimal places of a particular column, i am using below script to get the output, but the output is not generating in desired format.
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Hi All,
I have problem in the middle of implementing to users, whereby the complaint is all about the decimal place which is too long. I need two decimal places only, but the outcome from command is always fixed to 6.
See the sample :
before:
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Site Sort SortName Parts ... (3 Replies)
Hello,
if I've a list of number
23
34
56
78
how I can place a sequence of ordinated number in a boundary column so
1 23
2 34
3 56
4 78
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pt.1
path :... (3 Replies)
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this expr command works
:add=`expr 1 + 1`
:echo $add
:2
but when i am trying to add
:addThis=`expr 1.1 + 1`
:expr: An integer value was expected.
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