[erlang-questions] List troubles

[Thomas Elsgaard]

Hi Raimo, that was even better, thanks!

Thomas

On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 at 08:22 Raimo Niskanen <
raimo+erlang-questions@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 08:26:30PM +0000, Thomas Elsgaard wrote:
> > Thanks! I tried many other things, but you solved it, thanks! Now I also
> > learned something new today ;-)
>
> It might actually be this one you need:
>
>   2> unicode:characters_to_list([<<"A">>,"4",<<"B">>,"c",<<"d">>]).
>   "A4Bcd"
>
> or
>
>   3> unicode:characters_to_binary([<<"A">>,"4",<<"B">>,"c",<<"d">>]).
>   <<"A4Bcd">>
>
> if you should want an UTF-8 binary as the result.
>
> iolist_to_binary assumes ISO Latin-1 i.e ISO 8859-1 character encoding.
> The unicode module presumes UTF-8 and enables the choice of most Unicode
> encodings as well as Latin-1 as well as the choice of outputting a binary
> or a list.
>
> Side not: the term "flattening a list" suggests a list of any type terms.
> For this task there are functions in the lists module but they flatten
> just lists and does not convert a contained binary.
>
>
>
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 at 20:50 Brujo Benavides <
> > fernando.benavides@REDACTED> wrote:
> >
> > > Have you tried iolist_to_binary ?
> > >
> > > 1> iolist_to_binary([<<"A">>,"4",<<"B">>,"c",<<"d">>]).
> > > <<"A4Bcd">>
> > > 2> binary_to_list(v(-1)).
> > > "A4Bcd"
> > > 3>
> > >
> > > On Nov 9, 2016, at 16:48, Thomas Elsgaard <thomas.elsgaard@REDACTED>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I am having some difficulties by flattening a list which looks like
> this:
> > >
> > > [<<"A">>,"4",<<"B">>,"c",<<"d">>]
> > >
> > > After flattening, it should look like this: A4Bcd
> > >
> > > Any good ways to do this ?
> > >
> > > Thomas
> > >
> > >
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