Re: Awk Error - Help SOught Urgently

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. Re this:

> From: Rahul Gopal Joshi <address@hidden>
> To: "'address@hidden'" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "'address@hidden'" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Awk Error - Help SOught Urgently 
> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:50:21 -0500
>
> Hello 
>
>       I am a student technican in Texas A and M University. I am using Gnu
> Awk (gawk) 2.15, patchlevel 5 for doing text processing. I have to process
> about 5000 files, one after another, with each file containing about 200000
> records. WHen I run the awk code, for batches of about 100 -150 files, it
> runs fine., But when I try to run in on the entire list of 5000 files, it
> breaks in between and gives the following error . 
>
>       awk: Internal software error in the tostring function on .
>
>        The input line number is 5. The file is channel_numtest.inp.
>  The source line number is 66.
>
>     ---- The source line number in the error message is different each time.
>
>      If I run the code for the same file, at which halted, it goes through
> fine. I tried to search the documentation but could not come across any
> information about the above error message. Can you give me some insight of
> what could be the problem ? 
>
> ------
> Rahul Gopal Joshi 
> Energy Systems Laboratory 

You are using a pitifully ancient version of gawk.  The latest version
was just released, version 3.1.4.  You can get it from

        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.1.4.tar.gz

Download and build this version, and retry.  If you still get an error,
then, please let me know.

Thanks,

Arnold Robbins