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From: tvdl@bsiao.UUCP (Timo van der Laan)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: awk bug, fix wanted (bsd42 maybe others too)
Message-ID: <309@bsiao.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 05:56:13 EST
Article-I.D.: bsiao.309
Posted: Wed Mar 18 05:56:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Mar-87 06:09:25 EST
Reply-To: tvdl@bsiao.UUCP (Timo van der Laan)
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Problem
	The following call to awk (to be used in a shell script) gives the
	error message 'funny variable' when called with a parameter >49.

	awk -F~ '{printf "%s %s\n",  $'$1', $82;print $'$1', $82 }' Input

Repeat-by
	Create a file Input with 82 fields separated by ~ (on 1 line).
	Save the awk-call in a file Call.
	sh -x Call nn
	will give the error message if nn>49.

Question
	Does somebody has a fix for this problem? I looked at the sources
	of awk and I found only 1 constant that was 50. Increasing this
	constant to 100 and recompiling awk didn't work.
	We have a VAX-750 with 4.2bsd running.

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