Binary matching

[Danie Schutte]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 12:39 -0200, Inswitch Solutions - Erlang
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> Does someone know why the following binary matching fails?
>  <<X:7/binary, Rest/binary>> = <<0>>

I think the problem lies with the fact that X:7/binary will look for 7
binary BYTES of data and not 7 BITS.
<<X:7, Rest/binary>> = <<0>> might be more what you are looking for.


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> Is there an elegant way to group an octect binary in seven bits
> values?
> For example eight characters (1 character = 1 byte) in seven octects.
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> thanks,
> Eduardo Figoli
> INSwitch Solutions
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Danie Schutte <danie@REDACTED>
Erlang Financial Systems
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