Re: Stuck on whole numbers.

From: Stephane CHAZELAS (stephane_chazelas_at_yahoo.fr)
Date: 09/27/03 

Date: 27 Sep 2003 09:29:47 GMT

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
[...]
> 1. Use ksh93; it handles real numbers, which most shells do not

zsh does.

> (note the dot after 4 to force floating point interpretation):

only in locales (LC_NUMERIC) where the decimal point is a dot.

>
> echo $(( 2 / 4. ))
[...]

In a french locale for instance, that would be

echo $(( 2 / 4, ))

~$ ksh93 -c 'echo $(( 2 / 4. ))'
ksh93: line 1: 2 / 4. : arithmetic syntax error

~$ locale -k LC_NUMERIC
decimal_point=","
thousands_sep=""
grouping=-1;-1
numeric-decimal-point-wc=44
numeric-thousands-sep-wc=0
numeric-codeset="ISO-8859-1" 

-- 
Stéphane

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