[erlang-questions] Efficiency of splitting binaries

[Richard Andrews]

--- Håkan Stenholm <hokan.stenholm@REDACTED> wrote:

> > What other way is there to determine the length of a binary?
> >   
> size/1 (works on binaries and tuples), while length/1 works on lists e.g.:
> 
>  > size(<<>>).
> 0
>  > size(<<"abcde">>).
> 5
>  > size({}).
> 0
>  > size({1,2,3}).
> 3


Thanks.

I don't remember seeing this mentioned in any of the OTP docs.



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