[erlang-questions] Additions to lists module

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

How about:

case X of
field_name -> #myTable.field_name
end


bengt

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 18:38 -0500, Serge Aleynikov wrote:
> That is if you know at compile time that the field your are interested 
> in is #myTable.field_name.  What if you need to get the value of the 
> field X = 'field_name' in Table = myTable?
> 
> Gleb Peregud wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Isn't #myTable.field_name enough to determine the position of the
> > field in record's tuple? Have I understood this correctly?
> > 
> > BR
> > 
> > On 11/26/08, Serge Aleynikov <saleyn@REDACTED> wrote:
> >> Say you have a mnesia table with a structure being record_info(fields,
> >> myTable).  The pos/2 function would help you find a position of a given
> >> field in the table.
> >>
> >> Mazen Harake wrote:
> >>> What is the idea behind pos?
> >>>
> >>> Curious because I have never been in a situation where I need to know
> >>> the actual position of an element since I always assume that the order
> >>> in a list is always undefined. Perhaps I missed something... do you have
> >>> a practical example?
> >>>
> >>> /M
> >>>
> >>> Serge Aleynikov wrote:
> >>>> I'd like to propose addition of these two functions to the lists
> >>>> module.   Very often I find the need for this functionality and feel
> >>>> that it belongs to the standard library.
> >>>>
> >>>> Serge
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> %% @spec (List::list(), Ele) -> integer()
> >>>> %% @doc Returns the position of `Ele' in the `List'. 0 is returned
> >>>> %%      when `Ele' is not found.
> >>>> %% @end
> >>>> pos(List, Ele) ->
> >>>>      pos(List, Ele, 1).
> >>>> pos([Ele | Tail], Ele, Pos) ->
> >>>>      Pos;
> >>>> pos([_ | Tail], Ele, Pos) ->
> >>>>      pos(Tail, Ele, Pos+1);
> >>>> pos([], _Ele, _) ->
> >>>>      0.
> >>>>
> >>>> %% @spec (Pred, Acc, List::list()) -> Acc1
> >>>> %%          Pred = (Ele, Acc) -> Acc1
> >>>> %% @doc A combination of foldl/3 and takewhile/2. Accumulate the result
> >>>> %%      while the predicate function returns true.
> >>>> %% @end
> >>>> foldlwhile(Pred, Acc0, [H|T]) ->
> >>>>      case Pred(H, Acc0) of
> >>>>      {true, Acc} ->
> >>>>          foldwhile(Fun, Acc, T);
> >>>>      {false, Acc} ->
> >>>>          Acc;
> >>>>      end;
> >>>> foldlwhile(_Pred, Acc, []) ->
> >>>>      Acc.
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