AWK experts - how would I code around this in awk...

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 22:24 +0000, Steve Flynn wrote:
> > A real test would be to see how big Steve Flynn's variables can get :-)
> 
> Fnarr! :)

Fnarr! Fnarr, fnarr, fnarr!  >snort<

> > The likelihood is that a partial record is not wanted anyway.
> 
> Nope, it's not, and if the spec runs true there shouldn't be any
> partial records, period.
> 
> We've all seen specs like that however.

Plus you might want to issue a warning if a partial record turns up,
rather than silently discard it. With 3.8 terabytes to convert, I'm
guessing you won't be watching the migration.

How are you sanity checking the input? Is that being left to the DB
import stage? There might be things you can do that will save a lot of
time, disk space and CPU cycles if the export was done wrongly. You
might need to check for 7-bit clean or something. Anything unexpected,
basically.

Regards, K.

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