Re: echo "" | gawk '{s=1.9; print s}'

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. Re this:

> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:17:23 +0200
> From: Naulin Francois <address@hidden>
> Subject: echo "" | gawk '{s=1.9; print s}'
> To: address@hidden
>
>
> This gawk command :
>
>    echo "" | gawk '{s=1.9; print s}'
>
> result in :
>
>    1.9
>         (dot) with GNU Awk 3.1.1 (in RedHat 9)
>
> and :
>  
>    1,9
>         (comma) with GNU Awk 3.1.3 (in Fedora Core 3)
>
>    Why ?
>
>                    Thank You !

Gawk is now (per POSIX) sensitive to the locale; it use's the locale's
decimal point for formatting output. To get the traditional behavior,
use

        export LC_ALL=C

in the environment (e.g., from Bash).

I am unconvinced that this aspect of POSIX conformance is a general
improvement, but it's probably too late to go back to the earlier
behavior, and at least it's standards compliant.

Arnold