Re: [9fans] hoc output format

[Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

On 13 May 2010 16:23, erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
>> > echo 1 2 | hoc -e '{while(read(x) != 0)y += x' ^ $nl ^ ' print y, "\n"}'
>>
>> Maybe it makes a sense to add in hoc(1) expression delimiter like a ';'?
>
> i don't use hoc very often.  i tend to use acid.  (!)
> this is because hoc won't do bit operations and doesn't
> accept hex.
>
> i typically do programming calculations and floating point
> just isn't the right way to do that.
>
> - erik
>
>

I've used hoc in my scripts to prepare some values which are then used
one for a calculation and second for naming a directory after this
value:

v = `{hoc -e $min+$step'*('$i-1')'}
mkdir $v

However, even for min=0 and step=0.05 (if I remember it right) for
some i I get a value like 6.50000000000something, which is annoying to
correct. That was the reason for my original question.
As proposed I will either add awk to format the result or use awk
exclusively in scripts. Nonetheless, maybe some control over the
format in hoc could be handy...

Thanks
Ruda