Select syntax pretty useful

[Sean Hinde]

I just made a nice discovery (undocumented from what I can make out)

If you have an ets table and want to retrieve strings which start with a
certain prefix you can do:

1>E=ets:new(sean, [bag]).
10
2>ets:insert(E, [{sean, "sean", 1}, {sean, "bean", 2}]).
true
3>A="se".
"se"
4>ets:select(E, [{{sean, A++'_', '_'},[],['$_']}]).
[{sean, "sean", 1}]

This is pretty nice, and it means we can do our current app without needing
some bloated expensive RDBMS product :-)

My thanks to the R8 team,

   Sean



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