Re: Rounding off real (floating point) values - bash to awk

[Duncan Roe <duncan_roe@acslink.net.au>]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 09:18:52AM -0500, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 11/26/2015 8:24 AM, Lester Anderson wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I can use a script like:
> >
> >#!/bin/bash
> >x=3.7
> ># pass variable x to awk via -v (var=value)
> >awk -v x=$x 'BEGIN { printf "%3.0f\n", x }'
> >#
> >
> >which returns the value 4 as expected, but are there any other methods
> >that can be used?
>
> In bash this must be a string (bash uses only fixed width integers for numbers),
> so you can put as many decimal places as you like.  awk will treat it as a string
> or floating point number, depending on context.  The f output format forces conversion.
> Another way is to do arithmetic;  even x+0 will do it.  IIRC, all numbers in awk are
> doubles (IEEE 64-bit floats).  The documentation on awk can tell you more about
> conversions, rounding, etc.
>
> Regards -- Eliot Moss
>
You can skip using awk: under bash 'printf "%3.0f\n" 3.7' gives "  4".
Or 'printf "%.0f\n" 3.7' gives 4,

Cheers ... Duncan.

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