STDLIB

User's Guide

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Chapters

• Introduction
  • Top of chapter
  • Scope
  • Prerequisites
• The Erlang I/O Protocol
  • Top of chapter
  • Protocol Basics
  • Output Requests
  • Input Requests
  • I/O Server Modes
  • Multiple I/O Requests
  • Optional I/O Request
  • Unimplemented Request Types
  • An Annotated and Working Example I/O Server
• Using Unicode in Erlang
  • Top of chapter
  • Unicode Implementation
  • Understanding Unicode
  • What Unicode Is
  • Areas of Unicode Support
  • Standard Unicode Representation
  • Basic Language Support
  • The Interactive Shell
  • Unicode Filenames
  • Unicode in Environment and Parameters
  • Unicode-Aware Modules
  • Unicode Data in Files
  • Summary of Options
  • Recipes

1 Introduction

1.1  Scope

The Standard Erlang Libraries application, STDLIB, is mandatory in the sense that the minimal system based on Erlang/OTP consists of STDLIB and Kernel.

STDLIB contains the following functional areas:

• Erlang shell
• Command interface
• Query interface
• Interface to standard Erlang I/O servers
• Interface to the Erlang built-in term storage BIFs
• Regular expression matching functions for strings and binaries
• Finite state machine
• Event handling
• Functions for the server of a client-server relation
• Function to control applications in a distributed manner
• Start and control of slave nodes
• Operations on finite sets and relations represented as sets
• Library for handling binary data
• Disk-based term storage
• List processing
• Maps processing

1.2  Prerequisites

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming language.