[erlang-questions] Help with tuple pattern match?

[Deryk Barker]

Caitlin Gibbons wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm looking at:
>
> Person={person,{name,{first,joe},{last,armstrong}},{footsize,42}}.
>
> and trying to extract the value of 'last', i.e., 'armstrong'.
>
> {_,{_,{_,{_,Last},_}=Person.
>
> was unsuccessful. Any help?
I think your tuple nesting went slightly awry; shouldn't that be:

{_,{_,{_,_},{_,Last}},{_,_}} = Person.

or - from my limited experience - preferably:

{person,{_Name,{first,_First},{last,Last}},{footsize,_Footsize}} = Person.

which only matches tuples with the appropriate tags in them.

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