[erlang-questions] Re: Correct syntax of a case clause

[Michael Radford]

info writes:
> Hey that was my question .... and you wander from my subject !
> [...]
> The question was "is it possible to group two patterns in a case ?"
> 
> In another pseudo code:
> if Expr = pattern1 OR Expr = pattern2 then do_1;
> if Expr = pattern3 then ...
> ...

I'm pretty sure another poster already gave this solution, but anyway,
yes, you can use guards:

  case Expr of
    X when X =:= a ; X =:= b -> do_1;
    c -> do_2
  end

Mike