Awk cannot read line more than 10K

[dnivraramuk]

I am trying to input a record to a awk program which has a line having 25000 char. When I read the line and print $0 in the program it is returning only 10240 characters. Even doing a length is returning the same count.

Could any one tell me how to change this setting so that it can read the whole line.

regards,
Arvind

 

[vgersh99]

either use gawk [might have a higher/no limits]
OR
if on Solaris, try either 'nawk' OR /usr/xpg4/bin/awk vlad
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[dnivraramuk]

tried nawk but it did not help. I am working on AIX 3.4.
Don't have gawk installed to check it up..

 

[vgersh99]

$ gawk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.0

works fine with 25K FIELDS - numeric fields from 1 to 25000

(if it's any reconciliation) vlad
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[CaKiwi]

Or if you have perl, you may be able to convert your awk script to a perl script using a2p and use perl instead of awk. CaKiwi

 

[dickiebird]

CaKiwi - where can I find a2p - it would be VERY useful for me, too.
;-) Dickie Bird
Honi soit qui mal y pense

 

[CaKiwi]

a2p should come with the standard perl distribution. CaKiwi

 

[gregor weertman]

You can also break the line in peaces with a small C program.
I made a program where I can pipe true large lines.
Long lines go in small lines come out.

Regards Gregor
Gregor.Weertman@mailcity.com

 

[bigoldbulldog]

If breaking lines is acceptable input for your app then do a man on the fold command.

e.g.

fold -w 100 input | theApp
Cheers,
ND

bigoldbulldog@hotmail.com