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

Most new awks have an int() function.

But the method for casting documented in 'The Awk Programming Language' is shown as you do it, by using numericValue and +0. I don't have the book handy, but I think you can also cast for float value by using +0.0.

I hope this helps.