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From: "Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan" <vdharani@gmail.com>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
	"Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] a bug in awk?
Date: Fri,  9 Jan 2009 22:39:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dac0a5820901092239v62541e04k57c84bef288b5b69@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c91c7fe31a20bb07b2f23c522965868@proxima.alt.za>

hi lucio,

so, it tries to interpret as a floating-point no and goes for a toss!

thanks for the quick response.

regards
dharani

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:26 PM,  <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>>               11258672 5946903e318d3596c21e35b42a13c1dea5fd32cc   0
>
> Note the 5946903e318 which AWK may mistakenly treat as a floating
> point constant.  Now to figure how to prevent such errors...
>
> ++L
>
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-10  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-10  5:57 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-01-10  6:26 ` lucio
2009-01-10  6:39   ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan [this message]
2009-01-10 16:19   ` John Stalker
2009-01-10 19:43     ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-10 21:45 erik quanstrom
2009-01-11  7:07 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-11  7:24   ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-11  9:30 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan

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