[erlang-questions] list manipulation

[Erik Søe Sørensen]

Does the list contain non-bytes - ie, values > 255 (or <0)?
Is the list pure (ie, ends with [])?

What you're probably looking for is the encoding functions in the 'unicode'
module.

/Erik
Den 05/09/2012 08.57 skrev "Martin Dimitrov" <mrtndimitrov@REDACTED>:

> Hello,
>
> I have a list, representing a UTF8 string, containing more than 225000
> elements. I have load it in var L:
>
> 8> lists:flatten(L).
> [60,63,120,109,108,32,118,101,114,115,105,111,110,61,34,49,
>  46,48,34,32,101,110,99,111,100,105,110,103,61|...]
> 9> list_to_binary(L).
> ** exception error: bad argument
>      in function  list_to_binary/1
>         called as
> list_to_binary([60,63,120,109,108,32,118,101,114,115,105,111,
>
> 110,61,34,49,46,48,34,32,101,110,99,111,100,
>                                   105,110,103|...])
> 10> file:write_file("data.txt", L).
> {error,badarg}
>
> Why list_to_binary/1 and write_file/2 fail?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin
>
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