Re: thousands separator

[Gary Ashburn]

much more simple test - good idea

result is still random character:


C:\C\UTIL>echo BEGIN { printf("%'d\n", 123456789 ) } > awktest.awk

C:\C\UTIL>awk -f awktest.awk
123V456V789

C:\C\UTIL>awk -f awktest.awk
123Ö456Ö789

with -W traditional still random:

C:\C\UTIL>awk -W traditional -f awktest.awk
123b456b789

C:\C\UTIL>awk -W traditional -f awktest.awk
123E456E789


system is vista32 SP1



At 04:57 AM 7/3/2009, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Please send text mails in the future.
>
> It would help to know which version of gawk this is for Windows (how it
> was compiled, where you got it).  It would also help to send the input
> data; I don't really know off the top of my head what the dir command
> outputs since I do gawk development under Linux.
>
> This is undoubtedly some kind of locale issue; Windows systems have
> limited or nonexistent support for these kinds of things.
>
> If you set LC_ALL=C in the environment, that might help, but in this case
> you won't get a thousands separator at all.
>
> Let's try something simpler.  What happens if you run:
>
>         BEGIN { printf("%'d\n", 123456789 }
>
> Do you always get the same output? What is it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold