record _info and guard record(X) seems to refuse variable as argument.

[Ingela Anderton]

luc.taesch@REDACTED wrote:
> sorry , previsou posting was unclear.
> 
> i mean, record_info refuse variable as table name.
Well, that is because all records are handled by the precompiler and
all reference to records are translated into tuples and tuple functions.
I had a similar problem where I wanted to be able to be able to
traverse a set of records creating lists with the record fields that
where not undefined. I solved the problem with help of the following
structure where I automatically generated the select function with an
appropriate fun.  

-record(header, {title, 
		 bold,  % true | false 
		 title_align, 
		 title_valign	 
		}).
...


fields(header) ->
    record_info(fields, header);
...

select(Record, header, title) ->
    Record#header.title;
select(Record, header, bold) ->
    Record#header.bold;
select(Record, header, title_align) ->
    Record#header.title_align;
select(Record, header, title_valign) ->
    Record#header.title_valign;
....



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