Pattern matching: Skipping the rest of a tuple

[Sean Hinde]

On 28 Dec 2005, at 19:19, Joel Reymont wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Is it possible to write a function to pattern-match on tuples of  
> various sizes _without_ using  element(X, Tuple)?
>
> I'm dealing with records of different length and would like to say  
> things like
>
> match({record1, _, 20, _/rest}) -> ...
> match({record2, 30, _/rest}) -> ...
> etc.

Isn't this as simple as:

match(#record1{b=20}) ->
match(#record2{a=30}) ->

Sean