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<DIV><SPAN class=318261608-10082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=318261608-10082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Using
record_info is a compile-time option - you can only do it in a module where the
record is defined. Which is fine most of the time.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=318261608-10082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>For
the mode advanced use, there is a contribution in jungerl
(lib/msc/src/rec_info.erl) that will use the tricks from shell.erl to take a
record and a module where it is defined and return a list of {key, value}s. This
works dynamically, retrieving the record definition from the module's beam or
the source. Of course, you still need to know of a module where this record is
used.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=318261608-10082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>It's
not at all optimized, but might be useful. One issue is that retrieving record
info from a source file requires compiling it...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=318261608-10082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>best
regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=318261608-10082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Vlad</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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