[erlang-questions] Updating elements of a record

Donald Steven t6sn7gt@REDACTED
Wed Jan 23 19:51:44 CET 2019


Thanks everyone!

On 1/23/2019 11.07 AM, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 06:04:13PM -0500, Donald Steven wrote:
>> I should have said:
>>
>> test(Rec, [{a, Val},{c, Val}])
>>
>> On 1/22/2019 5.48 PM, Donald Steven wrote:
>>> Thanks Roger.  I see how this works, but the issue is as much how to
>>> get it to do:
>>>
>>> test([{a, Val},{c, Val}]), leaving, for example, field b untouched.
> setelement/3 does exactly that; copies the other fields
>
>>> On 1/22/2019 3.57 PM, Roger Lipscombe wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, at 3:10 PM, Donald Steven wrote:
>>>>> I would like to pass a list of some fields of a record to a function to
>>>>> update those fields, leaving the other fields as they were. The list
>>>>> will be different for each function call.  For example, one call might
>>>>> want to change fields 1, 2 and 7, another call only field 8, another
>>>>> call fields 3 and 4.  Of course, each field will have a unique name.
>>>>> Each call to updateStatus (let's call it) would look like
>>>>> updateStatus(Status, List_of_Fields_to_Update) -> code.
>>>>>
>>>> Records are just tuples. Use setelement with #rec.field:
>>>>
>>>> -module(rec).
>>>> -export([new/0, update/3, test/0]).
>>>>
>>>> -record(rec, {a, b, c}).
>>>>
>>>> new() ->
>>>>       #rec{}.
>>>>
>>>> update(R, Val, [F | Fields]) ->
>>>>       R2 = setelement(F, R, Val),
>>>>       update(R2, Val, Fields);
>>>> update(R, _Val, []) ->
>>>>       R.
>>>>
>>>> test() ->
>>>>       R = rec:new(),
>>>>       R2 = rec:update(R, 2, [#rec.a, #rec.c]),
>>>>       R3 = rec:update(R2, 1, [#rec.b]),
>>>>       R3.
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