awk and lines wirh more than 199 fields

[Sébastien N]

Hi,

I want to use awk on lines containning more than 199 fields to sum values of these lines.

Awk limits the number of fieds to 199 :-(

How to do to use awk in this case ?

Thanx !
Sebastien.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Your best bet is to use the GNU version of awk, gawk. It has no predefined limits as to record size or number of field and is compleytely compatible with your existing code. It's a better awk then awk.
http://gatekeep.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gawk-3.1.1/man.html

[Tom Maloy]

Definitely gawk.

Of course, you could always switch to perl...