Re: [bug-recutils] Value Expressions

[Jose E. Marchesi]

    > Yes, but we still have to figure out a way to make the value of other
    > fields available to the filter, i.e. how to pass the existing value of
    > another field to sed, or some composition of fields?
    
    We could use environment variables, e.g. adding an argument to set a
    named variable to the result of a FEX.  (There are obvious alternatives
    like not passing other fields or passing the whole record in stdin, they
    won't help with the company email example.)

We could simply make all the fields in the matched record available to
the filter command.  It is the syntax to refer to a "field variable"
what is a bit tricky.  The {...} construct proposed by john looks
cleaner than ${...}:

recset -f Email -F "sed -e 's/foo/{Name}/'

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