Here I am trying to find the closest value of a variable in 1st column; then want to print the corresponding value in the 2nd column.
for ex:- the file a.txt contains:-(2 columns)
2 8 2.5 10 3 30 3.5 50
If t1=2.75;
after running my code:-
r_t1=more $a.txt |awk '{if($1=='$t1') print $2}'
It prints nothing as 2.75 is not there in any of the rows in 1st column.
But in my work I want $t1 to match with the closest value of a row in the 1st column of "a.txt".
Means if t1=2.75; then it should print "30" (as 2.75 is close to 3; hence print the corresponding row of 2nd column)
How to do it???? Kindly help
