mnesia primary key creation

[Ulf Wiger]

Den 2006-07-04 21:31:26 skrev Roberto Saccon <rsaccon@REDACTED>:

> I liked the cheap solution:
>
>   oid() -> {node(), erlang:now()}.
>
> but how can I turn erlang:now() into a String ?? (which probablly
> won't look very URL-friendly)
>
> I thouhgt of turing it into a list, then into a binary, then base64
> encoding it, but
>    list_to_binary(tuple_to_list(erlang:now()))
> does not work.

Well, for example:

1> {Node,{MS,S,US}} = {node(), erlang:now()}.
{nonode@REDACTED,{1152,47770,297000}}
2>  
list_to_binary([atom_to_list(Node),"-",integer_to_list(MS),"-",integer_to_list(S),"-",integer_to_list(US)]).
<<110,111,110,111,100,101,64,110,111,104,111,115,116,45,49,49,53,50,45,52,55,55,55,48,45,50,57,55,48,...>>
3> binary_to_list(v(2)).
"nonode@REDACTED"

BR,
Ulf W

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Ulf Wiger