line length limit in awk
Jim Wright
jwright at cfht.hawaii.edu
Sun Oct 7 15:29:49 AEST 1990
I write:
>Is the limitation of number of fields per record in (n)awk insurmountable?
And the results are in.
use gawk -- no mention if the limitation is still present, but you do
get source to fix it
use perl -- no such limitation
use a2p -- converts awk scripts to perl scripts
Choice three is for me. At least until I learn perl.
--
Jim Wright
jwright at cfht.hawaii.edu
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.
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