How should space characters be treated in the Binary syntax? I get the following results from within the Erlang shell: Eshell V5.0.1 (abort with ^G) 1> Bin=<<8,16>>. ** 1: syntax error before: '<' ** 1> Bin =<<8,16>>. ** 1: syntax error before: '<' ** 1> Bin= <<8,16>>. <<8,16>> 2> Bin2 = <<8,16>>. <<8,16>> /Mikael Karlsson