[erlang-questions] How to keep adding items to a data structure

[Donald Steven]

Hi Antonios,

You are kind and generous to help.  I'll study this carefully.  I will 
be wanting to add a list or a record, not just numbers.  Is this possible?

Don

On 04/24/2016 03:13 PM, Antonios Kouzoupis wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
> The way you iterate in Erlang and I guess in most functional programming
> languages is by recursive call. So if you want to add/append some
> numbers to a list, one way to go is the following:
>
> populate(Num) ->
>      populate(Num, []).
>
> populate(0, Acc) ->
>      Acc;
> populate(Num, Acc) ->
>      populate(Num - 1, [Num | Acc]).
>
>
> Now if you call populate(100), you'll get the list [1,...,100]
>
> BR,
>
>
>
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