gawk math formula 2

[mhmallory]

I have a problem that I’m trying to work out in gawk. This should be so simple, but my attempts ended up with a
divide by zero errors.

What I trying to accomplish is as follows –

maxlines = 22 (fixed value)
maxnumber = > max lines (unknown value)

Example:

maxlines = 22
maxnumber = 60

My output should look like the following:

print lines:
1
2
.
22

print lines:
23
24
.
45

print lines:
46 (remainder of 60 (maxnumber)
47
.
60


TIA
mhmallory

 

[Annihilannic]

Try this:

awk -v maxlines=22 -v maxnumber=60 '
        BEGIN {
                for (i=1; i<=maxnumber; i++) {
                        if (!((i-1)%maxlines)) { print "\nprint lines:" }
                        print i
                }
        }
'

Annihilannic.

 

[mhmallory]

Thank YOU! I was making the problem harder by over thinking the problem.

I really got into trouble when I tried to work out precedence operations in awk and ending up with divide by zero errors.

The solution works great!

mhmallory

 

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