Binary matching

[Vance Shipley]

Danie,

That would make Rest a binary of 1 bit which is illegal.

	-Vance


On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:20:03AM +0200, Danie Schutte wrote:
}  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>>
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}  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