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Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:09:25 +0300 (EEST)
Subject:	Re: change in gawk from 3.1.5 to 3.1.6
From:	"Nicholas Volk" <nvolk AT bitlips DOT fi>
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Awk is not really my expertise (haven't used it in years) but shouldn't
that be

awk '{printf ("%6d", 0x22) }' test.txt

I mean that "0x22" usually refers to strings, not hexes.
Works fine without quotations.

br,
  Nicholas

> Hello Corinna,
>
> the change in gawk from 3.1.5  to 3.1.6 broke my script.
>
> in 3.1.5 i received a correct value when fomatting hex strings
>
>  > awk '{printf ("%6d","0x22" ) }' test.txt
>   34
>
> in 3.1.6 i receiveonly 0 when fomatting hex strings
>
> 3.1.6
>  > awk '{printf ("%6d","0x22" ) }' test.txt
>   0
>
>
>
> it loks as if it didn't understand hex notation any longer. Or am I
> missing something ?
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>
>
> Helmut Kern
>
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