Hi all!

I have read a line of text from a file with awk which is a floating point number. Now i want to multiply this float with 100, but it didnt work - the fractional part is missing:

String: 0000018.50
Float: 18,000000

Whats the problem? I dont have any idea what i am making wrong....

Thank you in advance
Greetings!

you might need to use bc -l

* verify if you have bc on your unix box.

do a man bc and learn how to implement it.




Srikanth

Thanks for this hint!

You could use the printf fuction to specify the precision...

$ awk 'BEGIN {printf "%10.2f\n",0000018.50 * 18000000}'
$ 333000000.00

(You'll need to do something about the ',' in your float figure first though.)