[erlang-questions] List comprehension puzzler

[Dan Gudmundsson]

What happens when you write it out?

io:format("~w~n",[S]).
[49,50,51,97,52,53,54]

Hmm a strange list of integers appears.

A string in erlang is a (normal) list of characters/unicode codepoints
which are represented by their integer value.


On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 6:56 PM <lloyd@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Now this I would not expect:
>
> 4> S = "123a456".
> "123a456"
>
> 5> is_integer(S).
> false
>
> 6> [is_integer(I) || I <- S].
> [true,true,true,true,true,true,true]
>
> Please tell me what I don't understand.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> LRP
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