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Old 04-14-2003
Integer/Float Script Problem
Hi,

I have a script which takes a value from a file and performs calculations on it. Trouble is that this value is a float not an integer and it errors at the decimal point!
eg. 94.62
I would like to be able to detect the length of the float (in this above case, 5 characters), and simply do a cut -c on the first x characters depending on it's length. Anyone know how to detect the length of this input?

Cheers.Smilie
danhodges99
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Old 04-14-2003
No problem guys, got it! In case anyone needs to know, you can just bung the variable into a temp file and do a
wc -m ${TEMPFILE}
which gives you the total characters in the file. Ta anyways.
danhodges99
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Old 04-14-2003
In ksh you can do:
x=123.45
echo ${#x} is the length of x
echo ${x%.*} is the integer portion of x
 
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