[erlang-questions] Binary pattern matching

[Peti Gömöri]

hi Valentin,

Maybe you remember the case when Offset was bound within the binary?
<<Offset, _:Offset/binary, Value/binary>>

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 8:39 AM Valentin Micic <v@REDACTED> wrote:

> My sincere apology if this has been discussed before…
> I vaguely remember that a number of years ago, one was able to write
> something like this:
>
> *some_function( Offset, <<_:Offset/binary-unit:8, Value/binary>> ) -> …*
>
> without (Erlang R21.1) compiler complaining with: *variable Offset
> unbound*
>
> Was I dreaming?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> V/
>
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