Re: Awk Error

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. Re this:

> From: "Perincheril, Seeba" <address@hidden>
> To: "'address@hidden'" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Awk Error
> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:28:15 -0800
>
> Hello,
>    I'm trying to parse a file with a awk scripts. I'm getting an error that
> "Inut line can not be longer than a 3,000 bytes". Is this the limit of
> awk? Which i should use to over come this error?
> Thanks,
> Seeba Perincheril

It appears you're using a Unix version of awk which has builtin limits.
You can overcome it by getting gawk, 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.1.1.tar.gz.

Arnold