[erlang-questions] can you directly generate a binary from format/2 ?

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

There is no such format that I know of.
It would probably be a good idea to just change the list to a binary:

erlang:list_to_binary(io_lib:format("test", [])).


bengt

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 20:28 -0700, Steve Kirsch wrote:
> io_lib:format("test", []).
> 
> returns the string "test".
> 
> What I'd like is a way to return <<"test">> instead from the output of
> format.
> 
> Is there a format/2 somewhere that returns a binary?
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