AWK question

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In article <3747 at brl-adm.ARPA> lesh at BRL.ARPA (ISC | howard) writes:
>	THE PROBLEM:
>	"Users should also note that there is an upper limit to the
>number of files that are written in this way.  At present it is ten."*1
>
>	I can't find any way to close a file opened by 'awk' and very
>soon get the "too many opened files error message". 
>
>	Any suggestions?
>
>	
>1. Support Tools Guide, p. 6-31.


Any version of awk produced after July '85 (when my documentation says
this feature was added, has the 'close' function.  The close function
is used as follows:

close("filename");

where filename is the name of a file or pipe that has been previously
opened.

I just tried it and it worked with no problems.  Unfortunately, most
awks are not this new, and there does not seem to be a way to accomplish
this on those earlier awks.

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Paul Guthrie
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