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Re: iconvdata perl-ectomy
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> writes:
|> Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> writes:
|>
|> > A better way to read hex numbers in awk would be appreciated.
|>
|> You should talk to Aharon Robbins, the GNU awk author. Maybe he has a
|> proposal. If there is a GNU awk extension one could use it.
awk only knows about decimal numbers, because every number is a floating
point number, and other bases don't fit here. GNU awk isn't different. I
don't think there is a better way.
Andreas.