I'm still catching up on a 1200 post backlog across a couple of lists, so here's a late reply.
On 25.01.12 05:44, gene heskett wrote: > I looked at the gawk man page, didn't see any mention of floating point > math so I kept on looking. Bash only does integer. Didn't see any mention > of sed & math or floating point. Gawk does floating point. On ubuntu, the manpage says: » VARIABLES, RECORDS AND FIELDS AWK variables are dynamic; they come into existence when they are first used. Their values are either floating-point numbers or strings, or both, depending upon how they are used. AWK also has one dimensional arrays; arrays with multiple dimensions may be simu‐ lated. Several pre-defined variables are set as a program runs; these are described as needed and summarized below. « Manpages being only for confirming what you already know, but can't quite put in exactly the right syntax, there's also this: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/ Erik -- All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. - Grant Wood ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
