[erlang-questions] Questions about zip

[Hugo Mills]

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 02:58:11PM +0800, Low Kian Seong wrote:
> First of all sorry, I am a beginner and the docs are a bit confusing to me.
> Can someone tell me what is wrong with this?
> 
> 2> zip:zip_open('dome.zip', [{'cwd': <<'/home/lowks/Downloads'>>}])
> 2> .
> * 1: illegal expression

   You have a very strong python accent. :)

  '' is for quoting atoms. You need "" to quote strings. In addition,
the tuple separator (after cwd) is , not :

   Hugo.

> also The second one gives back ok, but when I check the zip file is still
> compressed.
> 
> 4> zip:zip_open("dome.zip").
> {ok,<0.40.0>}
> 
> 
> Some help is greatlly appreciated. Thanks.
> 
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> 
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