Re: gawk error

[John Seberg]

This could be a problem with your script.  If you refer to an array 
element that does not exist, it will be created with a null string
value.  This may be unintended and wasteful of memory.  This is 
explained in the "Referring to an Array Element" section of the gawk
manual in a bit greater detail.

I am not aware of any memory limitations of gawk.  Can you make more
virtual memory available?

In article <address@hidden>, Shaji Philip wrote:
>Hi
>
>I tried to parse a large file using gawk. Inside gawk the script
>will store values into several arrays. But while running the script
>its giving error like
>gawk: cmd. line:176: fatal: tree_eval: str: can't allocate memory (Not 
>enough space)
>
>When I used nawk the error is
>nawk: out of space ..........
>source line number 86
>
>I tried using a comparatively small size file and it was working fine.
>
>Can you give me some idea to resolve this.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Shaji
>
>
>
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