<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi! <div>And happy new year.</div><div><br></div><div>If you also simulate send you could send with a unique reference:</div><div>Replace</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pid ! Message</div><div>With</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pid ! {make_ref(), Message}</div><div><br></div><div>Then you can get the k'th message {Ref,Message} and do a selective receive to remove that message:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>receive</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>{Ref,_Message} -> ok</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>end</div><div><br></div><div>A bit on the heavy side, but fun. </div><div>Handling timeout is a bit more tricky, but solvable with the above schema.</div><div><br></div><div>/Tony</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 4 jan 2013, at 20:22, Aggelos Giantsios <<a href="mailto:aggelgian@gmail.com">aggelgian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Happy New Year to everyone!<br><br>I am trying to simulate the 'receive' expression behaviour.<br>I access the process message queue with erlang:process_info(self(), messages).<br>Assuming I have selected a message Msg which is at position k in the message list and have safely stored it in a variable,<br>
is there a way to manually remove Msg from the process message queue?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Aggelos<br><br>
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