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From: jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: line length limit in awk
Keywords: (n)awk too small
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Date: 6 Oct 90 09:52:20 GMT
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Is the limitation of number of fields per record in (n)awk insurmountable?

My data files consist of a julian date in "%13.5f " format followed
by 100 data readings in " %8.2f" format, followed by a newline.  Pretty
tame stuff, but awk, nawk and vi all claim the lines are too long to
deal with.  Other tools have varying success.  Am I screwed or is
there and easy way to fix awk?  (Without a source license.)

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Jim Wright
jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.