Hi folks!

I just like to send some information regarding "awk" problems under MacOs which occurs at least on "German" systems. I am not quite sure if FS uses awk at any point - but it might help when processing FS results:

With the Region Setting "Germany" in the general settings of MacOs (system-> Language&text->region), awk gets into trouble when dealing with floatings points:

echo "1 0.2 3.1" | awk '{ print $3*$2 }' --> 0!!!

awk '{ print $3 " * " $2 }' | bc -l 

However, if you change the regional settings to  "GB" or "US"

echo "1 0.2 3.1" | awk '{ print $3*$2 }'

At this point I have to thank Mark Jenkinson from the Oxford FSL team who suggested the work around and came up with the idea that the regional setting might cause the problems ...

Best wishes,

Luke