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Re: Problems with awk / nawk
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Problems with awk / nawk |
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Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:01:56 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
"Makasy, Christine (USB)" <address@hidden> writes:
> The use of nawk produces the following error message: String /..../... too
> long at source line 1.
> Which settings do I need to change?
You need to use gawk instead of nawk. One of gawk's design goals is
to avoid silly limits on string length.