I think that we should do this in the shell. I mean. It will get done at some point, in the next decades or centuries. Why not do it now? Let's compile some C library or allow inline C
On Wed, Jun 5, 2024, 2:12 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 01:31:20PM -0400, Saint Michael wrote: > > the most obvious use of floating variables would be to compare > > balances and to branch based on if a balance is lower than a certain > > value > > I use: > > t=$(python3 -c "import math;print($balance > 0)") > > and the > > if [ "$t" == "False" ];then > > echo "Result <= 0 [$t] Client $clname $clid Balance $balance" > > fi > > There must be a solution without Awk or Python or BC. Internal to bash > > The example you show is just comparing to 0, which is trivial. If > the $balance variable begins with "-" then it's negative. If it's "0" > then it's zero. Otherwise it's positive. > > For comparing two arbitrary variables which contain strings representing > floating point numbers, you're correct -- awk or bc would be the minimal > solution. > >
