Comments on: Beware the decimal separator http://szili.net/2008/01/31/beware-the-decimal-separator/ draw and compile Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:33:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Zsoltik@ http://szili.net/2008/01/31/beware-the-decimal-separator/#comment-1084 Zsoltik@ Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:29:44 +0000 http://szili.net/2008/01/31/beware-the-decimal-separator/#comment-1084 I did feel the pain last week: I had to implement an AWK script which handles well the input of a 4 GB file with mixed thousand and decimal separator, and handle well the output. If you look up printf() in AWK you will find, that there is a ' option to it which handles the thousand separators. But I just can't get it working for me: the escaping should have been '"'"' and it had thrown an error all the time. So after a while I had implemented a TSEP function instead. And my hair went grey. I did feel the pain last week: I had to implement an AWK script which handles well the input of a 4 GB file with mixed thousand and decimal separator, and handle well the output.

If you look up printf() in AWK you will find, that there is a ‘ option to it which handles the thousand separators. But I just can’t get it working for me: the escaping should have been ‘”‘”‘ and it had thrown an error all the time. So after a while I had implemented a TSEP function instead. And my hair went grey.

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