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Re: (possible) bug submission for gawk
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: (possible) bug submission for gawk |
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Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:04:53 -0500 |
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"Black Passion" <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden gawk-3.1.5]$ echo 111111111.123456789 | ./gawk '{printf
> "%.4f",$1}'; echo
> 111111111.1235
This happens because "%.4f" means that the number should be *rounded*
to 4 decimal places, not *truncated*. .1235 is numerically closer to
your input number than .1234.
paul