Edit File: LIMITATIONS
Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. This file describes limits of gawk on a Unix system (although it is variable even then). Non-Unix systems may have other limits. # of fields in a record: MAX_LONG Length of input record: MAX_INT Length of output record: unlimited Size of a field: MAX_INT Size of a printf string: MAX_INT Size of a literal string: MAX_INT Characters in a character class: 2^(# of bits per byte) # of file redirections: unlimited # of pipe redirections: min(# of processes per user, # of open files) double-precision floating point Length of source line: unlimited Number of input records in one file: MAX_LONG Number of input records total: MAX_LONG