LukasWorld
Pipe second tuple member
In Dave Thoma’s programming book there is the following line of code:
IO.puts File.read!( *"* */usr/share/dict/words"* )
|> String.split
The exclamation mark ! returns the result, which would otherwise be returned in the {:ok, result} tuple.
This made me wonder if there is a method of piping only selected parameters to the next function in the pipe.
If I have:
{:ok, some_value} |> OI.puts #Is there any way of printing the value of some_value?
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OvermindDL1
File.read( *"* */usr/share/dict/words"* )
|> elem(1)
|> String.split()
No error checking or anything then, you might pipe an error value for example, with, the ok library, the exceptional library are all better at that.
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NobbZ
There are some hex-packages available that claim to be able to deal with piping :ok tuples, but personally I tend to do one of the following (in order of preference):
- Use
withrather than piping - write a function that extracts the value and also deals with error
- Use an anonymous function in the pipe
- Pipe into
elem/2
edit Add elem/2 to the list.
LukasWorld
Thanks.
Seems using elem as an intermediary is the easiest and dirtiest method of passing specific tuple elements.
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