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Re: traditional awk: lazy splitting of $0?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: traditional awk: lazy splitting of $0? |
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Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:38:55 -0700 |
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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 11/17/2007 1:38 AM:
> Oh well. Tru64 4.0D awk doesn't work that way:
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> $ perl -e 'print "x "x200;' | awk '{print $0}'
> awk: Line x x x x x x x x x x cannot have more than 199 fields.
> Tru64 4.0D awk
> even splits the input if $i, i>0, was never accessed in the script.
Let's document that in autoconf.texi, then.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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