From 377a5875a09abed9ee7a64237f666d838f8bbd01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 07:56:27 -0700
Subject: awk macro: add orec variable.

* share/txr/stdlib/awk.tl (sys:awk-state): New slot,
orig-rec.
(sys:awk-state loop): Initialize orig-rec after reading
each record.
(sys:awk-let): Provide orec symbol macro.

* txr.1: Document orec variable.
---
 txr.1 | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'txr.1')

diff --git a/txr.1 b/txr.1
index 11f23cec..fef7e0a4 100644
--- a/txr.1
+++ b/txr.1
@@ -38346,7 +38346,7 @@ switches to the next input source. When there are no more input sources,
 the macro terminates.
 .RE
 
-.coNP Variable @ rec
+.coNP Variables @ rec and @ orec
 .desc
 The awk variable
 .code rec
@@ -38368,6 +38368,33 @@ and these fields are assigned to the field list
 At the same time, the
 .code nf
 variable is updated to reflect the new number of fields.
+Likewise, modification of these variables causes
+.code rec
+to be reconstructed by a catenation of the textual representation
+of the fields in
+.code f
+separated by copies of the output field separator
+.codn ofs .
+
+The
+.code orec
+variable ("original record") also holds the current record. It is automatically
+updated prior to the processing of the condition-clauses at the same time as
+.code rec
+with the same contents. Like
+.codn rec ,
+it is initially
+.code nil
+before the first record is read. The
+.code orec
+variable is unaffected by modification of
+the variables
+.codn rec ,
+.code f
+and
+.codn nf .
+It may be assigned. Doing so has no effect on any other
+variable.
 
 .coNP Variable @ f
 .desc
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