[erlang-questions] strings vs binaries

zxq9 zxq9@REDACTED
Wed Aug 19 01:37:09 CEST 2015


On 2015年8月18日 火曜日 17:47:53 Steve Davis wrote:
> In addition to what’s already been said... 
> 
> The old chestnut that “erlang is bad at string manipulation” completely goes away if you choose to use binaries for all your text.
> 
> In fact, erlang is far superior at text tasks than most platforms I have used if you keep all your text as binaries.

...unless you need to do it in utf8...



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