Re: Negative number comparisons in GAWK

[NIDE Naoyuki]

In article <address@hidden>,
        address@hidden writes:
> I have some numeric data, which is also comma delimitted.  I was using
> gawk to print only the values less than -1.0, but it prints the values
> between -1.0 and 0.0 instead.  These numbers are real numbers, not integers.
> This bug goes away when the comma is removed, and works properly.  If a
> comma is directly at the end of the numeric value, it fails.
> gawk ' { if ($1 < -1.0) {print} } ' inputfile >outputfile

  Read the 'Variable Typing And Conversion' section of gawk manual.
Gawk performs a string comparison if one value is a non-numeric string.
A string which contains ',' is not regarded as a numeric string.  You
should remove ',' from the string data before comparison.

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