Re: Problem with double precision numbers

In article <4c59890.0504050212.92e425f@posting.google.com>,
Itaca <mazacar@hotmail.com> wrote:

[...]

% I want to substract 24 to the first field of each register. For this
% purpose i have used the following sentence:
%
% awk  -F, '{$1=$1-24; print $0}' archive

This should give a floating-point result for the first field.

What awk are you using?
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Patrick TJ McPhee
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On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:45:27 -0500 in comp.lang.awk, Ed Morton
<morton@lsupcaemnt.com> wrote:

>Itaca wrote: 
>
>Is it possible that this is a locale issue? Maybe your locale is set to
>something unexpected and gawk 3.1.1 was ignoring it but gawk 3.1.3 is
>using it correctly. Just a guess. Take a look at
>http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/ma...wk.html#Locales for some more
>info on locales.

Looks like you made a good catch: the OP's awk seems to be 
between period and comma, maybe because comma is the locale decimal
point, as in most non-English locales, where semicolon fills the role
in lists which use comma in English locales.

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