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author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2018-07-13 13:56:10 +0300 |
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committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2018-07-13 13:56:10 +0300 |
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Output +inf, +nan etc. also, so that output can be input. Doc, tests, fixed.
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diff --git a/doc/gawk.info b/doc/gawk.info index 29051f64..dc1aa075 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.info +++ b/doc/gawk.info @@ -6733,6 +6733,15 @@ width. Here is a list of the format-control letters: versions of 'awk' may print invalid values or do something else entirely. (d.c.) + NOTE: The IEEE 754 standard for floating-point arithmetic allows + for special values that represent "infinity" (positive and + negative) and values that are "not a number" (NaN). + + Input and output of these values occurs as text strings. This is + somewhat problematic for the 'awk' language, which predates the + IEEE standard. Further details are provided in *note POSIX + Floating Point Problems::; please see there. + File: gawk.info, Node: Format Modifiers, Next: Printf Examples, Prev: Control Letters, Up: Printf @@ -23424,13 +23433,20 @@ and infinity values. The solution implemented in 'gawk' is as follows: $ echo nanny | gawk '{ print $1 + 0 }' -| 0 $ echo +nan | gawk '{ print $1 + 0 }' - -| nan + -| +nan $ echo 0xDeadBeef | gawk '{ print $1 + 0 }' -| 0 'gawk' ignores case in the four special values. Thus, '+nan' and '+NaN' are the same. + Besides handling imput, 'gawk' also needs to print "correct" values +on output when a value is either NaN or infinity. Starting with version +4.2.2, for such values 'gawk' prints one of the four strings just +described: '+inf', '-inf', '+nan', or '-nan'. Similarly, in POSIX mode, +'gawk' prints the result of the system's C 'printf()' function using the +'%g' format string for the value, whatever that may be. + ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) You asked for it, you got it. @@ -36170,456 +36186,456 @@ Node: OFMT289534 Node: Printf290890 Node: Basic Printf291675 Node: Control Letters293249 -Node: Format Modifiers297928 -Node: Printf Examples303943 -Node: Redirection306429 -Node: Special FD313270 -Ref: Special FD-Footnote-1316438 -Node: Special Files316512 -Node: Other Inherited Files317129 -Node: Special Network318130 -Node: Special Caveats318990 -Node: Close Files And Pipes319939 -Ref: table-close-pipe-return-values326846 -Ref: Close Files And Pipes-Footnote-1327659 -Ref: Close Files And Pipes-Footnote-2327807 -Node: Nonfatal327959 -Node: Output Summary330297 -Node: Output Exercises331519 -Node: Expressions332198 -Node: Values333386 -Node: Constants334064 -Node: Scalar Constants334755 -Ref: Scalar Constants-Footnote-1335619 -Node: 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