#26 gawk: Error scanning float values

[Anonymous]

Using "gawk.exe" from file "gawk-3.1.0-2-bin.zip"
and mawk under Windows 95 and ME
I issued the following commands and
got the results below:

D:\Gawk\bin>gawk "BEGIN{print 0.5}"
0

D:\Gawk\bin>mawk "BEGIN{print 0.5}"
0.5

The same applies to "awk.exe", "igawk.exe"
and "pgawk.exe".

By the way, 2 additional proposals:

• In order to get "gawk.exe" to run
  I also had to install "libintl.dll" & "libiconv.dll".
  I did not see this being mentioned in
  the installation instructions, but got
  corresponding error messages from gawk
  (very helpful, good job).
  A statically linked version may be nice as well.

• Also a lightweight version without the
  internationalization and network features
  (<200kByte) as in earlier would be nice to have.

Kind regards
and thanks for your efforts

G. Seelmann
.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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It depends on the settings in the Windows Control Panel:
when the decimal separator for numbers is set to "." (like
in English speaking countries) , "print 0.5" prints "0.5".
But when the decimal separator is set to "," (like in German
speaking countries), "print 0.5" prints "0". A workaround is
to write "print 5/10", which prints "0,5".

GK

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This bug has been fixed. A new release is available through
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