Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I am new with functional programming languages and I can’t understand why in Erlang, if I take a BubbleSort, QuickSort or any other sorting algorithms and try to sort [8] it will return “\b”. Or [12,10,11] will return “\n\v\f”. Can someone please help me?
This is due to the fact that Erlang represents strings as lists of numbers. When printing such a list, the Erlang output function will look to see whether your list contains all numbers that correspond to ASCII character values. If so, then it prints your list as a string.
It sounds like your code is working correctly. Try sorting
[12345, 29348, 978]with your existing code to see what happens.See the reference manual section 2.11 String for information about this.