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Re: [bug-gawk] How to ensure string comparison?
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arnold |
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Re: [bug-gawk] How to ensure string comparison? |
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Wed, 02 Nov 2016 21:07:14 -0600 |
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Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, I want to make sure string comparison is used for the second case.
> Is there a way to do so in awk?
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> /tmp$ awk 'BEGIN { print ("10" > "2" )}'
> 0
> /tmp$ printf '%s\t%s\n' 10 2 | awk '{print ($1>$2) }'
> 1
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> --
> Regards,
> Peng
printf '%s\t%s\n' 10 2 | awk '{ print ($1 "" > $2 "") }'
Arnold