[erlang-questions] Conversion of string into Ascii values ??

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

If you know you have a string the correct way is ~s. As in:

io:fwrite( "jbss msg  ~s~n", [Mymsg] ).


bengt

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:39 +0530, J Bhanot wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> In following code: 
> 
> add(Mymsg) -> 
>  io:format("jbss msg  ~w~n", [Mymsg]), 
> 
> when I am executing complex3:add(["abc"]).......where complex3 is my
> module name..... 
> 
> I get the output as  
> 
> jbss msg  [97,98,99]........ 
> 
> Why is it coverting abc in ascii value..... 
> 
> Is there a way in which I can get - 
> 
> jbss msg abc 
> 
> Thanks, 
> jb 
> 
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