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

[Chandru]

On 28/02/2008, J Bhanot <j.bhanot@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Many Thanks Anthony and Chandru for your help...
>
> I am going through erl_interface pdf...in that...I got
>
> ~i - Integer
>  ~f - Floating point
>  ~a - Atom
>  ~s - String
>  ~w - Arbitrary Erlang term
>
>
> ~p is not there.........

I guess that is because you don't need terms to be pretty printed when
exchanging them between an erlang and C.

As Richard pointed out, ~p is for pretty printing.

cheers
Chandru