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Date: Fri,  9 Jan 2009 22:39:05 -0800
From: "Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan" <vdharani@gmail.com>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
	"Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] a bug in awk?
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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
>
>
>