Inverse match on ets?

[Ulf Wiger (AL/EAB)]

Apologies. I replied before fully understanding what you were after.

Ok, so how about this?


1> ets:new(filters, [public,named_table]).
filters
2> ets:insert(filters, {pid(0,56,0), {record,a,'_'},[], [true]}).
true                      
3> ets:insert(filters, {pid(0,57,0), {record,b,'_'},[], [true]}).
true                      
4> ets:insert(filters, {pid(0,62,0), {record,'_',7},[], [true]}).
true
5> catch ets:foldl(fun({Pid,MS,G,R}, Acc) -> [{Pid,ets:test_ms({record,a,7},[{MS,G,R}])}|Acc] end, [], filters).
[{<0.62.0>,{ok,true}},{<0.57.0>,{ok,false}},{<0.56.0>,{ok,true}}]

/Uffe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Bates [mailto:tim@REDACTED]
> Sent: den 10 oktober 2005 14:30
> To: Ulf Wiger (AL/EAB)
> Cc: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Subject: Re: Inverse match on ets?
> 
> 
> Ulf Wiger (AL/EAB) wrote:
> > Here's an example, but it depends a bit on how generic you 
> want the function to be.
> 
> Thanks Ulf, but I was hoping for something a lot more general 
> than that. 
> I want processes to be able to register their interest in a 
> particular 
> type of message, and the messages are somewhat free-form.
> 
> I guess another way to do it, that I'll fall back on, is to have a 
> callback function for each process and use Erlang's compiled 
> pattern-matching to select the messages I'm interested in.
> 
> Tim.
> 
> -- 
> Tim Bates
> tim@REDACTED
>