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Re: [bug-gawk] string misinterpretation
From: |
Davide Brini |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-gawk] string misinterpretation |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:43:14 +0200 |
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:20:37 -0700, "Love, Mr. Gary, Contractor, Code 7542"
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Developers,
>
> I encountered a problem when a value is extracted from a field using the
> substr function and is then used in a conditional numeric test. The test
> fails unless I multiple the substr value by 1.0 because the parser thinks
> the value is a string.
>
> The attached code and data file demonstrate the problem. The workaround
> for the problem is to change line 5 From:
> incrm=substr($0,191,14)
> To:
> incrm=1.0*substr($0,191,14)
It works for me with gawk 4.0.2 without having to change anything. (btw, the
usual way to force numeric interpretation is adding 0, but I guess
multiplying by 1 also works).
--
D.