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In article <BvpIsC.CHx@news.cso.uiuc.edu> thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) writes:
>I have been having a bit of trouble with floating-point numbers in
>Gawk (2.13, I think) under OS/2 2.0.
>
>I have a script which tallies up some figures (dollar amounts, so they
>are floats) and then tries to print them.  I use a line something like
>
>   printf "Total: %.02f, bleagh\n", total;
>
>and all I get is:
>
>   Total: f, bleagh
>
>for output.  Using this same script with Gawk under Linux worked fine,
>so naturally I assumed it would work with Gawk under OS/2.
>
>I also tried
>
>   printf "Total:", total, ", bleagh";
>
>and that printed
>
>   Total: 12510 , bleagh
>
>which isn't even close to correct ("total" is nowhere near 12510, or
>even 125.10).
>

I have no problem with mine.  When I summed up from 1.01 to 1.1, I
got 1.55 using both print and printf "%.02f".  There are two ports
of gawk 2.13 on ftp-os2, so you obviously need to try the other one.

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