invalid number

[esamecar]

Hi, works fine so far but with every usage I receive an error (I guess instead of token usage), like

/usr/local/bin/ask: line 194: printf: .726304000: invalid number

I am running macOS 15.7 with number format set to GER (e.g. "12,45 €").

Kind regards Marco

[quintenzee]

I am getting very similar errors (part /usr/local/bin/ask: line 194: printf: is the same) on Ubuntu 24.04

[sgvictorino]

Maybe we can use Awk's printf to format US numbers according to the current locale?

export LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
export POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 # to enable localized numeric output in gawk
awk -v v="0.42" 'BEGIN { printf "%.1f", v }' # 0,4
printf "%.1f" "0.42" # bash: printf: 0.42: invalid number