Casting to int in awk

Question

I\'m looking for a method to cast a string to an int in awk. I have the following which appears to be doing a string comparison

(note: field

Answer 1

You can just use +0. say variable v is your percentage value.

$ awk -v v="80.1%" 'BEGIN{print v+0.1}'
80.2

You do not have to get rid of the % sign.