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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2014-03-10 22:35:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2014-03-10 22:35:01 +0200 |
| commit | 379f62687358dfda19694dea92389e092372fc2c (patch) | |
| tree | 017d84cf05b1a66dec69eb1c8721a0a6b46b3032 /doc/gawk.1 | |
| parent | 295bee08215e33ec82e34978cecc593b698c9ad9 (diff) | |
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Fix thousands separator problems and update doc.
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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ . if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq . \} .\} -.TH GAWK 1 "Jan 28 2014" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" +.TH GAWK 1 "Mar 08 2014" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" .SH NAME gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -2448,6 +2448,15 @@ This applies only to the numeric output formats. This flag only has an effect when the field width is wider than the value to be printed. .TP +.B ' +A single quote character instructs +.I gawk +to insert the locale's thousands-separator character +into decimal numbers, and to also use the locale's +decimal point character with floating point formats. +This requires correct locale support in the C library +and in the definition of the current locale. +.TP .I width The field should be padded to this width. The field is normally padded with spaces. With the |