Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:20:48 -0800, Frank Yaeger wrote:
For the example input, SORTOUT would have:
005.226.019.008
133.032.227.001
Be very careful! I tried something similar with some TCP/IP
UNIX command a while back; just to get the columns to line up
vertically. Ouch! The command assumed, after venerable UNIX
tradition, that any number beginning with a '0' is Base 8!
Terrible convention.
-- gil
Hold it right there, buster! :-)
Ain't you the fellar that gets on IBM's case when they don't
follow "venerable UNIX traditions", even if they are not in
the standard?
Which way do ya' wanna' go?
Kind regards,
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