Re: gawk always prints 0 for a hexadecimal number printed using printf %d

[John Cowan]

Mahendra Ladhe scripsit:

> when a field on a line which is a hexadecimal number(preceded by 0x)
> is printed using printf with %d format specifier, gawk always prints
> 0 instead of the value of the field in the decimal format.

That is because awk's string-to-number conversion (unlike the Awk language
itself) does not understand "0x..." strings, so it converts just the
initial numeric part, which is "0".

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