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Re: change in gawk from 3.1.5 to 3.1.6
- From: "Nicholas Volk" <nvolk at bitlips dot fi>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:09:25 +0300 (EEST)
- Subject: Re: change in gawk from 3.1.5 to 3.1.6
- References: <4861DC42.5060608@t-online.de>
Awk is not really my expertise (haven't used it in years) but shouldn't
that be
awk '{printf ("%6d", 0x22) }' test.txt
I mean that "0x22" usually refers to strings, not hexes.
Works fine without quotations.
br,
Nicholas
> Hello Corinna,
>
> the change in gawk from 3.1.5 to 3.1.6 broke my script.
>
> in 3.1.5 i received a correct value when fomatting hex strings
>
> > awk '{printf ("%6d","0x22" ) }' test.txt
> 34
>
> in 3.1.6 i receiveonly 0 when fomatting hex strings
>
> 3.1.6
> > awk '{printf ("%6d","0x22" ) }' test.txt
> 0
>
>
>
> it loks as if it didn't understand hex notation any longer. Or am I
> missing something ?
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>
>
> Helmut Kern
>
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