[erlang-questions] Re: Using match in guards

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

It makes more sense (and works in the Erlang shell) to write the match
in this order:

 {regex, _} = S


bengt

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 09:45 +0100, Angel Alvarez wrote:
> El Martes, 22 de Diciembre de 2009 00:02:55 caio ariede escribió:
> > Just correcting my example:
> > 
> > search(S) when S = {regex, _} ->
> 
> PAttern matching?
> 
> search(S={regex,_}) -> ....
> 
> 
> /Angel
> 
> 
> 
> > ...
> > 
> > Caio Ariede
> > http://caioariede.com/
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:01 PM, caio ariede <caio.ariede@REDACTED> wrote:
> > > In function guards we can use functions like is_string/1 and is_number/1.
> > >
> > > But I'm needing to check a generic type defined by {type, Value} but
> > > *in guards* like this:
> > >
> > > search(S) when N = {regex, _} ->
> > > ...
> > >
> > > I know that I can do that with search(S = {regex, _}), but my example
> > > was only for representing the problem.
> > >
> > > The main question is: there is a way for using match in guards? Or
> > > something like this?
> > >
> > > Caio Ariede
> > > http://caioariede.com/
> > >
> > 
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