Re: [9fans] rc: token buffer too short

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

Not in this case, no. The format of awk is

	awk 'program' files
	awk -f prgm files

What I could do instead is

	u=/tmp/$0$pid$apid$0
	cat > $u <<\END
	program
	END
	awk -f $u $*
	rm $u

but I'd rather not go that way to avoid possible collisions.

Here's another problem. The error check function cats to [1=2].  
However, instead of going to standard output, it makes a file [1=2]  
and writes the message there. How do I fix this?

On Dec 11, 2007, at 8:32 AM, roger peppe wrote:

> a reason to use here files? :-)
>
> On Dec 1, 2007 7:09 PM, Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Apparrently in quoted strings each character (rune, actually)  
>> constitutes
>> one token. The lexical scanner only holds NTOK (==8192) tokens at  
>> a time and
>> sam and wc convince me you have a 8555 byte string you pass to  
>> awk. You
>> should probably put the awk stuff into a separate file eg.awk and  
>> just do
>> `awk -f eg.awk $*' in eg (cf. chem(1) ). You might have to fiddle  
>> with where
>> you put things, but that seems to be the easiest way out.
>>
>>         Martin
>>
>>
>> * Pietro Gagliardi (pietro10@mac.com) wrote:
>>> Run /n/sources/contrib/pietro/eg (a work-in-progress troff
>>> preprocessor for graphs of equations). You get the error described
>>> above on a line that contains simply "else". What happened?
>>