[erlang-questions] Pass a pattern to a function

[Sten Gruener]

Hello,

I try to write a function to scan the message queue and discard matched
messages.

Like this:

discard(Pattern) ->
    receive
        Pattern ->
            discard(Pattern)
    after 0 ->
        ok
    end.

the problem is, that I cannot call discard({_, {msg}}) since _ is a wildcard
representation. Are there any solutions?

Regards,
Sten Gruener
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