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authorKaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>2016-09-24 17:06:42 -0700
committerKaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>2016-09-24 17:06:42 -0700
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doc: add to fconv documentation.
* txr.1: Documenting effect of fconv on rec, and its return value.
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@@ -39158,6 +39158,20 @@ Thus fields which are non-numeric strings or the object
get converted to 0, or 0.0 in the case of
.codn rz .
.RE
+.IP
+Because
+.code fconv
+macro destructively operates on the elements of the field list
+.codn f ,
+it has the same effect as an assignment to the fields:
+the value of
+.code rec
+is updated.
+
+The return value of
+.code fconv
+is
+.codn f .
.coNP Examples of @ awk Macro Usage
The following examples are