I am VERY much an elixir newbie. I have taken one elixir course and one phoenix course on Udemy. During that course, I saw the instructor do a pattern match against a string. This is exactly the first step i needs to take for my first phoenix project.

in my project, I am receiving a ton of strings that look like:

<li>Kiwi Jr. (33)</li>
<li>Deep State (29)</li>
<li>Piroshka (29)</li>

where he did something like:

iex(1)> string = "<li>Kiwi Jr. (33)</li>"
"<li>Kiwi Jr. (33)</li>"
iex(2)> "<li>"<>artist<>"("<>playcount<>"</li>" = string
** (ArgumentError) the left argument of <> operator inside a match should be always a literal binary as its size can't be verified, got: artist

obviously, i am missing something .. I would like to end up with:

artist = Kiwi Jr.
play count = 33

anyone see where i am putting it in the ditch?
thanks!