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From: hamilton@aztec.osbusouth.xerox.COM (Bruce Hamilton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: awk questions: >10 output files; RS
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <255@aztec.osbusouth.xerox.COM>
Date: 15 Apr 89 03:34:23 GMT
Reply-To: hamilton.osbuSouth@Xerox.COM (Bruce Hamilton)
Organization: Xerox Corp, El Segundo, CA
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Since there's no comp.lang.awk, this must be the place...

I just bought Aho, Kernighan, & Weinberger and started
playing.  I may never use another language!  :-)

I did run into a couple of glitches:

-how can I get more than ten output files?  Even when I
explicitly "close"d each file after writing each record, awk
still barfed after writing 10 files.  I know I could up-level
and write an awk to generate awks to handle groups of
ten records, but then that is only good for 100 records...

-is there any way to set RS to a string, instead of just
one character?  It would allow me to write cleaner code
with fewer calls to substring to chop off beginnings and
endings of records.

Kindly cc: me by e-mail.

Thanks,

--Bruce
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