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Old 01-15-2009
AWK - HELP pls explain this ?
Code:
echo "23.54" | awk '
function round(A) {
  return int( A + 0.5 )
}
{
printf("%d\n",round($1));
}'> > > > > >
awk: syntax error near line 2
awk: bailing out near line 2

Last edited by Franklin52; 01-15-2009 at 06:53 AM.. Reason: CODE TAGS
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Old 01-15-2009
Paste your code inside [ code] [ /code]. Remove space after [.
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Old 01-15-2009

My first guess is that you are running on Solaris and that you should be using nawk rather than awk.
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