[erlang-questions] Pattern matching in function calls

[Gleb Peregud]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 22:44, Jachym Holecek <freza@REDACTED> wrote:
> I don't think so; gen_fsm is brilliant for purely event-driven automata but
> would be very ugly for a task like this. What the CSV guy needs to do is:
>
>  1) Get rid of #ecsv{} record, that's overkill for such a trivial purpose.
>
>  2) Break the parser into a bunch of tiny functions, pass all necessary
>     data in arguments.

Here's a csv parser which I got somewhere from the internet and
modified a bit (it does some dumb heuristic to handle badly formatted
csv files), which is implemented exactly this way
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