hi lucio, so, it tries to interpret as a floating-point no and goes for a toss!
thanks for the quick response. regards dharani On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:26 PM, <lu...@proxima.alt.za> wrote: >> 11258672 5946903e318d3596c21e35b42a13c1dea5fd32cc 0 > > Note the 5946903e318 which AWK may mistakenly treat as a floating > point constant. Now to figure how to prevent such errors... > > ++L > > >
