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From: david@cs.dal.ca (David Trueman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: using awk with records that have over 100 fields
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.170722.10191@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 7 Jan 91 17:07:22 GMT
References: <1990Dec31.200723.7929@convex.com> <1991Jan1.190259.868@csn.org> <1991Jan02.133911.24428@convex.com>
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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In article <1991Jan02.133911.24428@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:

>You could reasonably argue that there are
>actually two such paths, since gawk comes close to meeting these criteria:
>it has greatly increased the limits of things like line length and number
>of fields.  However, these limits still exist even in gawk, whereas in
>perl they're entirely removed, so gawk may not be enough.  It all depends

As the current primary developer of gawk, I would like to say that
I am unaware of any such limits in gawk (except the size of an int and the 
size of your swap space -- limits that I am sure perl also has).  If there
is any limit, it is an unknown bug that will be fixed -- yes, like perl
and unlike some unnamed commercial products, we do fix bugs!!  As they
say, you get what you pay for.
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