problem with arithmetic precision

[erixire]

Hi everyone,

I have a big problem. I am using gawk under windows and I want to add to column like this:
5.125 9.236
7.458 6.473
1.487 9.196

I want the output of $1 + $2, so
14.361
13.931
10.683

But it only gave me:
14
13
10

A kind of truncation. The thing is that this problem is only on some windows machine (running the same OS version). Does somebody can help me with this one (having more precision to my output)?

Thanks a lot,

 

[CaKiwi]

Use

printf ("%6.2f\n",$1+$2)

I don't know why your output is being truncated, perhaps the awk variables CONVFMT or OFMT have been set. How are you printing it?

CaKiwi

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[erixire]

Thanks CaKiwi, but actually, what I did, is find another awk for MSDOS and it work fine. I was printing like this:
{print $1 + $2}. But I didn't tried the "printf" function. So thanks anyway,