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geting asci value from character 1
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dickiebird
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Itried a simple script utilising awk - but it wouldn't work from alpha to numeric, but did work the other way round :
#!/bin/ksh
echo "enter a letter or a number > 64 and < 128.."
read numb
echo $numb|awk '{ printf("Alpha answer is %c and numeric is %d\n",$1,$1)}'
Anyone know why single characters won't decode to their ascii value in printf in awk, whereas numerics will convert ? Dickie Bird (
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#!/bin/ksh
echo "enter a letter or a number > 64 and < 128.."
read numb
echo $numb|awk '{ printf("Alpha answer is %c and numeric is %d\n",$1,$1)}'
Anyone know why single characters won't decode to their ascii value in printf in awk, whereas numerics will convert ? Dickie Bird (
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