Re: gawk limitations

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. There is a file named LIMITATIONS in the gawk distribution that
discusses this.  For the others, you'll have to explore the source code.

The short answer for gawk is that the number of fields and their lengths
are limited by the value of a size_t, which is usually a 32-bit unsigned
long on most systems, but can be 64 bits on some.

Arnold

> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 05:03:15 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ramprasad B <address@hidden>
> Subject: gawk limitations
> To: address@hidden
>
> Hi,
>
> I could not find proper info on the field limitations in gawk.
> Can anyone please provide this info for the following tools ?
>
> * awk
> * gawk
> * nawk
>
> Thanks in advance for your help !
>
> -
> Ramprasad B