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

[Aggelos Giantsios]

The selective receive with a bound Msg worked like a charm.
Thanks for the help!!

Aggelos

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Tony Rogvall <tony@REDACTED> wrote:

> 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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