Question:

Will awk perform decimal point calculaiton or not?

plz help


Sharif.S

Why not?

Refer the following URL:
Awk - A Tutorial and Introduction - by Bruce Barnett

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suresh

then wat cud be the reason for this output:-
shell
awk 'BEGIN{sum=0;}
{sum=sum+(99999.99);
print sum;
}' filed

Output
100000
200000
300000
400000
500000
600000
700000
800000
900000
1e+06
1.1e+06
1.2e+06
1.3e+06
1.4e+06

can someone pls look in to this..

Guys i have found the solution for the abv question..

Thanks!
Sharif.S

Whats the solution sharif?
why that occurred?
post it. we too will learn.

Hi SHerif,

As i saw u posted a very intersting query .After that you yourself found a solution for that also. That's great but if u found a solution please share with us.

Then we also come to know about the same problem's solution.

Regards

Nikhil Rattan

In awk there is settings parameter called OFMT which holds/defines the output format of numbers. by default its "%.6g". By increasing it we can achive desired results.

sorry guys yesterday i was with urgent task to complete, so cudn't able to post solution.

Thanks,
Sharif

Hi,

Sheri,

That was really i nice solution with complex query.

Thanks to post solution.

Regards

Nikhil

Hey Nikhil,

Just a change i want to mention. am sharif not sheri!!!!!!


Cheers,
Sharif

oh oh

Yap i mistyped that


fine

cheers!!!!!


Nikhil Rattan

No Issues Nikhil..

Cheers
Sharif

hi,

Sorry Sharif,

I mistyped that . I will take care about that for future.


Regards

Nikhil Rattan