[erlang-questions] strings vs binaries

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

On 21/08/2015, at 2:30 am, Steve Davis <steven.charles.davis@REDACTED> wrote:

> Actually, I don’t seem to have ever faced the problem of "get characters 3 to 11”. And I’ve dealt with some pretty diverse protocols...

I've faced basically that problem, using data with fixed field
widths, not delimiters.  Fortunately I haven't had to deal
with numeric data in non-ASCII digits.  Yet.