How best to convert a record field value into unicode:chardata() ?
As described in;
What do you mean? What does being a field of a record have to do with converting a value to Unicode?
What kind of value? What kind of conversion?
The question is very vague, but
io_lib:format(“~tw”, [R#recname.fieldname])
is one way.
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