[erlang-questions] case error

Wes James comptekki@REDACTED
Thu Nov 10 04:44:15 CET 2011


Argh - you are right, there is a Data above that - Thanks!

I kept thinking the structure of this didn't seem wrong.

Thanks again,

-wes

2011/11/9 József Bérces <jozsef.berces@REDACTED>:
> Hi Wes,
>
> I would suspect that you assigned some value to the variable Data in the same function earlier. So now it does not match the info read from the file.
>
> BR,
> Jozsef
>
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>
> I have a case like this:
>
> case file:read_file(Args) of
>          {ok, Data} ->
>                          ...;
>          {error, Reason} ->
>                          ....
> end;
>
> but when I run the code I get:
>
>
> exit value: {{case_clause,{ok,<<524 bytes>>}},[{module,fun,1}]}
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> thanks,
>
> -wes
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