[erlang-questions] Manually remove a message from Process Mailbox

[Tony Rogvall]

Yes, of course :-)

Not sure what I was drinking...

/Tony

On 4 jan 2013, at 20:55, Erik Søe Sørensen <eriksoe@REDACTED> wrote:

> [forgot to write the list]
> 
> That would be
>   receive TheMsg when TheMsg=:=Msg -> ok end
> (or shorter but perhaps less clear:
>   receive Msg -> ok end
> where Msg is already bound)
> assuming of course that you won't be trying to remove the non-first copy of a specific message - but given that you say you're trying to emulate the receive expression, and that doesn't allow it, then the above should be what you want.
> 
> 2013/1/4 Aggelos Giantsios <aggelgian@REDACTED>
> Happy New Year to everyone!
> 
> I am trying to simulate the 'receive' expression behaviour.
> I access the process message queue with erlang:process_info(self(), messages).
> Assuming I have selected a message Msg which is at position k in the message list and have safely stored it in a variable,
> is there a way to manually remove Msg from the process message queue?
> 
> Thanks,
> Aggelos
> 
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