Proposed integration of 'man awk'

[Ennio-(Sr)]

Hi all!

Kind attn of Arnold Robbins
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[Sorry if this is not formally correct, but I was unable to find 
the 'canonical' way to submit a 'diff'.]

In the message of Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:52:13 +0200 on
Newsgroups: comp.lang.awk
Subject: Re: Multiple conditional expression?
Jürgen Kahrs <address@hidden> suggested me to:
  
> Insert the sentence above into the file doc/gawk.1
> and post a diff to gnu.utils.bug. Arnold Robbins will
> eventually read the posting and may apply the patch to
> his source tree.

Having no idea on how to do that I'm copying the sentence:

"Beware, however, that locale settings may interfere with the way"
"decimal numbers are treated: the decimal separator of the numbers you"
"are feeding to awk must conform to what your locale would expect, be it"
"a comma (,) or a period (.)."

which could be added at the end of the following para of man awk:

> >    Variable Typing And Conversion
> >        Variables and fields may be (floating point) numbers,  or  strings,  
> > or
> >        both.  How the value of a variable is interpreted depends upon its 
> > con-
> >        text.  If used in a numeric expression, it will be treated as a 
> > number,
> >        if used as a string it will be treated as a string.
> >        To force a variable to be treated as a number, add 0 to it; to force 
> > it
> >        to be treated as a string, concatenate it with the null string.
> > 

to recall newbies' attention on potential problems with locale setting when
dealing with numbers in awk.

Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
        Ennio.
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