[erlang-questions] Mnesia queries

[Bob Cowdery]

Bob Cowdery skrev:
> I need a little help with mnesia queries. I want to parameterise the query but can't seem to find any examples of how to do that. The general form seems to be
> 
> qlc:q([X#rec.bar || X <- mnesia:table(foo), X#rec.bar == baz])
> 
> If I now want to select columns at run time is there some way I can construct the left side of the qlc.
> 
> Thanks
> Bob

>> Do you mean something like this?

>> qlc:q([{X#rec.bar, X#rec.baz} || X <- mnesia:table(foo), ...])


I've used that construct when I want to select several columns and know what they are at compile time. If I want to do that at run time by passing in a list like: 

myquery(List) ->
	qlc:q([{construct this from 'List'} || X <- mnesia:table(foo), ...]).

what is the approach to doing that.

Bob
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