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