nesting an if statement in awk...

[arunrr]

I have the following situation...

the variable INP can have the following values...
3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6

i need the awk statement to return...
3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4

in other words, 3.0 will be 3 and 3.6 will be 4

i tried something along the lines of...

echo $INP | awk -F. '{ if($2=0 || $2=6) printf "%.0f",$0}'

This does not work. PLEASE HELP!! THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

 

[feherke]

Hi

You are not testing equality, you are assigning new value to $2.

echo $INP | awk -F. '{ if($2=[highlight]=[/highlight]0 || $2=[highlight]=[/highlight]6) printf "%.0f",$0}'

But personally I would prefer it this way :

echo $INP | awk -F. '$2==0{NF--}$2==6{$1++;NF--}1'

Tested with [tt]gawk[/tt] and [tt]mawk[/tt].

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[arunrr]

Thanks a bunch! Works like a charm!!