[erlang-questions] record with dynamic item name

[Jon Watte]

You can also do that using record_info() without using a parse transform.
record_info(name, fields) returns a list of field names, which map to their
position in the tuple (remember that element 1 is the type). Use
element(Tuple, N) to extract the element.

Sincerely,

jw


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2011/8/29 Motiejus Jakštys <desired.mta@REDACTED>

> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:46:10PM +0200, Roberto Ostinelli wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > is there any way to retrieve a record item whose identifier is in a
> > variable? For instance:
> >
> > -record(state, {
> >     type = 1
> > }).
> >
>
> Ulf Wiger has done this job in parse_trans package:
> https://github.com/uwiger/parse_trans
>
> Documentation here:
> http://forum.trapexit.org/viewtopic.php?p=21790
>
> Basically looks like this:
> -compile({parse_transform, exprecs}).
> -export_records(['r']).
> -record(r, {a, b}).
>
> imho(MyField) ->
>    R = r{a = yadda, b = yabba},
>    '#get-'(MyField, R).
>
> main() ->
>    imho(a). %% Returns yadda
>
> Motiejus
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