Question

Need help with awk commands. How to increase precision.

Answer 1

I have a file with 8 columns. I need to total up every row in columns 4 and 7. An example of a line in my file is:
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When I awk it, I get
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As you can see it doesn't read the values properly and stops at a few figures. How do I make it read everything in the column?

Here is my awk file
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Answer 2

END {
printf( "%.8f, %.8f, %.8f\n", totalx, totalpsi, h )
}

Answer 3

Thanks! I'll try that tomorrow when I go back to work.

Answer 4

One question, would that just print it with lots of decimal places? Because when I run it for the whole data file it just adds the 'shortened' values.

Answer 5

Sadly that did not work. I did figure out the source of the problem though. Awk can only read exponents in the form of e and not D. I changed that in my data file and awk runs fine now. Thanks for trying.