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Old 03-23-2008
trimming zeros
Hi,

I want to trim +with leading zero's with amount fields.I know using awk for trimming leading zeros with +,but I want get the entire row itself.

cat file_name |awk -F " " '{printf "%14.4f%f\n",$4}'


ex:

10 xyz bc +00000234.4500
20 yzx foxic +002456.000

Expexted

10 xyz bc 234.4500
20 yzx foxic 2456.0000

Thanks inadvance
Mohan
# 2  
Old 03-23-2008
Code:
awk '{printf "%d %s %s %-14.4f\n", $1, $2, $3, $4}' file_name

# 3  
Old 03-23-2008
Another one with sed:

Code:
sed 's/+0*//' file

Regards
# 4  
Old 03-23-2008
Hi
Thanks for your reply

thanks
mohan
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