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sabetik

sabetik

IS-IT--Management
Nov 16, 2003
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I have have field f3 = 25.20 and need to get 1.15 of the 25.20. 15% plus f3


what is the right statment.

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Kamran
 
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You can also format the result:

echo field1 field2 25.20 | awk '{printf "%.2f\n" 1.15*$3}'
28.98

echo field1 field2 25.20 | awk '{printf "%8.2f\n" 1.15*$3}'
28.98

You get the idea.



HTH,

p5wizard
 
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