Re: gawk string to number (bug?)

[John Cowan]

Valerio, Danilo scripsit:

> Several people suggested me to switch to perl, but... I want to try
> everything I can with gawk before starting learning perl. :-)

You really do need a language with bignum (arbitrary-precision integer)
support, such as Java, Common Lisp, Scheme (in most dialects), or Perl.
Of these, Perl is the closest to awk, and there's even a translator, a2p.
Be sure to read the caveats in the a2p man page, though.  Then you can
add "use bignum;" to the top of the generated Perl, and away you go.

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