[erlang-questions] Print Date

[Henrik Nord]

Hi

Why not encourage users of Erlang, and just help them out, or ignore 
those questions that you deem to "easy" to be allowed to be asked on the 
mailing list.

There is really no reason to shout at a potential Erlang user of the 
year, just because he/she is just starting out with the language and 
does not know the ropes yet. Maybe its her first language? first time 
trying to program anything?, do you want to be responsible for scaring 
users away from the community?

BE NICE ON THE MAILING LIST PLEASE


To Lucky:
www.erlang.org contains a lot of information including, but not limited 
to, the documentation.
http://www.erlang.org/erldoc

There is also http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ for a guide and a first 
look at the language.

Erlang solutions also provides courses both E-lerning and classroom

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/services/training



On 2012-11-14 23:25, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
> On 15/11/2012, at 5:06 AM, Lucky wrote:
>
>> Hi Erlang Developers'
>>
>> I'm stuck here, I am trying to print date which is in this format "2012/04/23" using io:format/2, but I want it to be printed like this: 2012/04/23 without invited commas, how do I go about resolving this?
> READ THE MANUAL!
>
> Specifically http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/io.html#format-2
>
> Ask yourself, "how did those quotation marks get there?  What did I to that
> made io:format/2 think I was ASKING for them?"
>
> It looks to me as though you used ~p when you meant ~s,
> and in particular it looks to me as though you very likely
> just want to do
> 	io:put_chars(IoDevice, "2012/04/23")
> and not involve io:format/2 at all.  (Like in C you'd use fputs() rather
> than fprintf().)
>
> 1> io:format(standard_io, "~p~n", ["2012/04/23"]).
> "2012/04/23"
> ok
> 2> io:format(standard_io, "~s~n", ["2012/04/23"]).
> 2012/04/23
> ok
> 3> io:put_chars(standard_io, "2012/04/23"), io:nl(standard_io).
> 2012/04/23
> ok
>
> Before posting one more question, PLEASE try reading the manual.
>
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