Hi all, I have a process which outputs numbers in scientific format
like this: 2.2242013611E+03.
I would like to convert it to an integer. I tried to use awk without
much success.
Any pointers?
Any dc wizards out there? It'll be cool if this can be done in dc, but
any shell solution is good enough.
Thanks,
Sashi

Sashi wrote:

> Hi all, I have a process which outputs numbers in scientific format
> like this: 2.2242013611E+03.
> I would like to convert it to an integer. I tried to use awk without
> much success.

$ echo '2.2242013611E+03' | awk '{printf "%.4f\n", $0}'
2224.2014

adapt to the format you want.

On Dec 3, 10:09=A0am, pk <p...@pk.invalid> wrote:
> Sashi wrote:
> > Hi all, I have a process which outputs numbers in scientific format
> > like this: 2.2242013611E+03.
> > I would like to convert it to an integer. I tried to use awk without
> > much success.
>
> $ echo '2.2242013611E+03' | awk '{printf "%.4f\n", $0}'
> 2224.2014
>
> adapt to the format you want.

Thank you!
Sashi

On 12/03/09 23:09, pk <pk@pk.invalid> wrote:

> Sashi wrote:
>
>> Hi all, I have a process which outputs numbers in scientific format
>> like this: 2.2242013611E+03.
>> I would like to convert it to an integer. I tried to use awk without
>> much success.
>
> $ echo '2.2242013611E+03' | awk '{printf "%.4f\n", $0}'
> 2224.2014
>
> adapt to the format you want.
>

You can avoid awk, use printf(1):

% printf "%.4f\n" "3.1415926E+03"
3141.5926

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WANG Cong wrote:

> You can avoid awk, use printf(1):
> 
> % printf "%.4f\n" "3.1415926E+03"
> 3141.5926

Ah, true, thanks. Sometimes the most obvious things are not seen. I guess I 
was biased by his sayng "awk" so I just thought of that.