[erlang-questions] Re: How to remove \ from string

[Wes James]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Muhammad Yousaf
<muhammad.yousaf@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Thank you i got your point but what i am trying to do is ,  remote computer
> is sending me a data via socket like {get,"user","wilson","lname"}
> but for some reason i cannot match it in case statement my output is
> im in none
> recieve Data from
> socket:[255,251,31,255,251,32,255,251,24,255,251,39,255,253,
>                           1,255,251,3,255,253,3]
> im in none
> recieve Data from socket:"{get,\"user\",\"wilson\",\"lname\"}"
> im in none
> recieve Data from socket:"\r\n"
>
> Code is as fellow
> do_echo(Socket) ->
>     case gen_tcp:recv(Socket, 0) of
>         {ok, Data} ->
>             D = binary_to_list(Data),
>             case D of
>                 {get,_,_,_} -> io:format("im
> innnnnnn~n");%gen_tcp:send(Socket,erl_api:search());
>                 _Else -> io:format("im in none ~n")
>             end,
>             io:format("recieve Data from socket:~p~n",[D]),

<snipt>

Or you could use something like this:

...

D = binary_to_list(Data),
             case D of
               "{get"++_ -> io:format("im innnnnnn~n");

...

using matching.

-wes