[erlang-questions] Print Date

[Richard O'Keefe]

On 15/11/2012, at 5:06 AM, Lucky wrote:

> Hi Erlang Developers'
> 
> I'm stuck here, I am trying to print date which is in this format "2012/04/23" using io:format/2, but I want it to be printed like this: 2012/04/23 without invited commas, how do I go about resolving this?

READ THE MANUAL!

Specifically http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/io.html#format-2

Ask yourself, "how did those quotation marks get there?  What did I to that
made io:format/2 think I was ASKING for them?"

It looks to me as though you used ~p when you meant ~s,
and in particular it looks to me as though you very likely
just want to do
	io:put_chars(IoDevice, "2012/04/23")
and not involve io:format/2 at all.  (Like in C you'd use fputs() rather
than fprintf().)

1> io:format(standard_io, "~p~n", ["2012/04/23"]).
"2012/04/23"
ok
2> io:format(standard_io, "~s~n", ["2012/04/23"]). 
2012/04/23
ok
3> io:put_chars(standard_io, "2012/04/23"), io:nl(standard_io).
2012/04/23
ok

Before posting one more question, PLEASE try reading the manual.