Re: comma dot inconsistancy in gawk

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. Re this:

> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 10:29:01 +0200
> From: Heinrich Vollmers <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> CC: Michael Klein <address@hidden>
> Subject: comma dot inconsistancy in gawk
>
> There seems to be some inconsistancy and error when applying gawk which 
> did not appear in older versions (3.1.1):
>
> gawk -v dx=1.026 -v b=-3.29102e-05 'BEGIN{a=0.000602917;print 
> b*dx+a,a,b,dx;}'
> -3,37659e-05 0 -3.29102e-05 1.026
>
> gawk --version
> GNU Awk 3.1.3
> System: Linux SUSE 9.0
>
> With kind regards
>
> Heinrich Vollmers

This is fixed in the forthcoming release.  In the meantime, by running in
the C locale (export LC_ALL=C) and using periods for the decimal point, things
will work.

Thanks,

Arnold