[erlang-questions] What does Prompt in io:get_line/2 do?

[Ivan Uemlianin]

Aha thanks.  Special atoms.  Also standard_error.

Ivan

On 29/05/2014 15:24, Roger Lipscombe wrote:
> 1> io:get_line(standard_io, foo).
> foohaskgjdhgsdg
> "haskgjdhgsdg\n"
> 2> io:get_line(standard_io, enter_something).
> enter_somethingsdgdsgsgsad
> "sdgdsgsgsad\n"
> 3> io:get_line(standard_io, 'meh>').
> meh>fdasfhjdgfsadg
> "fdasfhjdgfsadg\n"
>
> On 29 May 2014 15:07, Ivan Uemlianin <ivan@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Dear All
>>
>> Quick question!
>>
>> In io:get_line(IoDevice, Prompt), what is the point of Prompt?  Just using a
>> random atom seems to work fine.
>>
>> 1> {ok,F} = file:open("data.txt",[read, {encoding, utf8}]).
>> {ok,<0.36.0>}
>> 2> io:get_line(F, x).
>> "first line\n"
>> 3> io:get_line(F, y).
>> "second line\n"
>> % ... etc
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ivan
>>
>>
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