Erlang on Windows List Comprehension multiply gives “\f”

Question

Hi i have a weird problem with Erlang on Windows i am running 16B and WinXP.

I have the following code

-module(test).
-export([cost/1,total/1]).
cost(ora         


        

Answer 1

Note your cost/1 function returns a number. But total/1 returns a list (of numbers). The results on that list are ok, this is just how erlang happens to display lists of small integers. See http://www.erlang.org/faq/problems.html 9.3

to see what I mean, try with larger numbers

test:total([{orange,2000}]).

Again, this is just a display issue, the value in the lists are what you expect. Try it:

[Value] = test:total([{orange,2}]).
Value.