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Old 07-08-2004
Data problem with set -A in ksh
I am trying to load a file into an array by using the set -A command in the ksh.

The file contains a comma delimited record of 19 fields and is 5196 records long. If I execute the following command, I get the record count.

cut -f1-19 -d',' -s RAGEFF.lst|sed 's/,/ /g'|sed 's/\L//g'|nawk '{ if (NF == 19) {print $1}}' |wc -l
5196

If I execute the following command I get a "subscript out of range" error.

set -A CustNo `cut -f1-19 -d',' -s RAGEFF.lst|sed 's/,/ /g'|sed '
s/\L//g'|nawk '{ if (NF == 19) {print $1}}' `
/bin/ksh: 5195: subscript out of range

I have searched everywhere that I can find for a maximum array size in the ksh, but could not find anything. Can anyone help me eliminate this errror?
Last edited by beilstwh; 07-08-2004 at 02:08 PM..
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Old 07-08-2004
The man page says: "The value of all subscripts must be in the range of 0 through 1023". From this you can infer that max array size in ksh is 1024.
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Old 07-08-2004
Rats!!! Oh well, I guess I will rewrite it in PERL. Thanks very much for the Info.
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