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Article #1398line length limit in awk
From: Jim Wright
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 1990 09:52
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 1990 09:52
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Is the limitation of number of fields per record in (n)awk insurmountable? My data files consist of a julian date in "%13.5f " format followed by 100 data readings in " %8.2f" format, followed by a newline. Pretty tame stuff, but awk, nawk and vi all claim the lines are too long to deal with. Other tools have varying success. Am I screwed or is there and easy way to fix awk? (Without a source license.) -- Jim Wright jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!bionet!ames!uhccux!catfish!jwright From: jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: line length limit in awk Keywords: (n)awk too small Message-ID: <jwright.655206740@catfish> Date: 6 Oct 90 09:52:20 GMT Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Lines: 13