[erlang-questions] scan to list

[Henning Diedrich]

:-) I would try to excuse that with 'for the sake of clarity.'

Yes, these are numbers that happen to come in one byte integers and my 
be mixed with other numbers that are bigger than one byte.


Zoltan Lajos Kis wrote:
> On 5/12/2010 7:16 PM, Henning Diedrich wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> is there a better/shorter way to write this:
>>
>> <<ColumnTypeBinaries:ColumnCount/binary, _/binary>> = Stream,
>>    ColumnTypes = binary_to_list(ColumnTypeBinaries),
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>> Henning
>>
> Well... are you sure you have to convert that binary to a list ? :o)
>