using awk with records that have over 100 fields

[David Trueman]

In article <1991Jan02.133911.24428 at convex.com> tchrist at 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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