On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 2:31 AM, Greg A. Woods <mailto:woods@weird.com> wrote:
>
>That's the same as nawk's too....
>
>	$ nawk 'END {print OFMT}' < /dev/null
>	%.6g
>
>Oddly nothing I can find in gawk's manual talks about this weird
>side-effect on "print" of changing OFMT....
>
>




    "GAWK(1)           Utility Commands         GAWK(1)"

   "Built-in Variables
       Gawk's built-in variables are:"

...
       "CONVFMT     The  conversion format for numbers, "%.6g", by
                   default."

...

       "OFMT        The  output  format  for  numbers,  "%.6g", by
                   default."

..............

  "Variable Typing And Conversion"
..............

   "The printf Statement
       The AWK versions of the  printf  statement  and  sprintf()
       function (see below) accept the following conversion spec-
       ification formats:"

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