Re: [bug-gawk] string or regular expression longer than 399

[Andrew J. Schorr]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 06:35:06PM +0800, Krad Chan wrote:
>       We are using awk to write some scripts on AIX 5, but following error
> happened.
> 
>       0602-508 The string or regular expression beginning with the
> characters "xxx" cannot contain more than 399 bytes.
> 
>      I find this is the limitation of awk on AIX 5 on forum, but nobody
> answers me which version can overcome this limitation.
> 
>     So, is this limitation has been overcome in new release or not? If it
> has been fixed, that which version of awk I should use?

Are you using gnu awk (gawk)?  If so, what do you see when you run
gawk --version?  I don't think gawk has any such length limits.

For example, on my Linux system, I see:

   bash-4.2$ gawk --version
   GNU Awk 4.1.0, API: 1.0 (GNU MPFR 3.1.1, GNU MP 5.1.1)
   Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2013 Free Software Foundation.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

If your problem is with gawk, please provide an example which
triggers the error.

Regards,
Andy