I have a question about traditional awk (that came up while working on
Paolo's pending autotest patch), regarding this note in autoconf.texi:
Traditional Awk has a limit of 99 fields in a record. You may be
able to circumvent this problem by using `split'.
Can I rely on the fact that s
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can I rely on the fact that splitting of $0 is done lazily?
I vaguely recall that traditional Awk worked that way, yes. Sort of
lazily, anyway: it split all of $0 if you accessed any $i where i>0.
> works with Solaris 2.6 awk
If it works with an aw
Hello Paul,
oldish thread:
* Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 09:03:35AM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Can I rely on the fact that splitting of $0 is done lazily?
>
> I vaguely recall that traditional Awk worked that way, yes. Sort of
> lazily, anyway: it s
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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:
>
> $ 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 s
