[erlang-questions] Binary matching partials

[Mike Oxford]

Awesome... it wouldn't let me match against a value but your way with the
_/bits works great.  Thanks!


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Vlad Dumitrescu <vladdu55@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I think that if your parameter is a binary, then whan you match
> something that isn't combining to an integer amount of bytes you have
> to add a bitstring tail.
>
> 2> <<A:6>> = <<8>>.
> ** exception error: no match of right hand side value <<"\b">>
> 3> <<A:6,_/binary>> = <<8>>.
> ** exception error: no match of right hand side value <<"\b">>
> 4> <<A:6,_/bitstring>> = <<8>>.
> <<"\b">>
>
> regards,
> Vlad
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Mike Oxford <moxford@REDACTED> wrote:
> > decode(Charset, <<A:6,B:6,C:6,D:6, T/binary>>, Acc)
> >
> > Match incoming stuff, 3 bytes at a time and put the remainder in T.  No
> > problem.
> >
> > If I get 5 bytes it has issues because it's not on the 3-byte boundary.
> > Fine ... except ...
> >
> > I've tried...
> >
> > 1)  Match less params...try <<A,B,C,D, T>> then <<A,B,C,D >>, <<A,B,C>>,
> > <<A,B>> and so on.
> > 2)  Match against zeros <<A:6, B:6, 0:6, 0:6>>
> > 3)  Match against various combinations of bit-widths and remainder/tails
> >
> > It seems as if it must match exactly, yet matching against the varying
> > levels of parameters doesn't seem to work.
> >
> > I couldn't find anything on Google about this particular matching case.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> >
> >
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