Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1

Re:Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1 by 7thaccount on Friday October 30, 2020 @09:26AM (#24941962)

Doesn't it convert everything to strings including numbers? Or can you specify types?

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Re:Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1 by lmns on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:50AM (#24949942)

You have to provide a schema anyway, so you can treat specific columns as integers.

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Re:Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1 by fnord123 on Friday October 30, 2020 @10:25AM (#24942525)

sqlite won't fail on bad types but you can do maths (e.g. sum, etc) on numeric columns,

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