You can read more about it in the getting started guides: http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/binaries-strings-and-char-lists.html
On Monday, August 8, 2016 at 8:27:23 PM UTC-4, Louis Pilfold wrote: > > Hey > > [7] == '\a' > > Single quote strings are actually lists of characters, so when you have a > list of numbers that can be treated as characters Elixir will print them as > like so. > > Cheers, > Louis > > On 9 Aug 2016 01:15, "Bibek Pandey" <bib...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Hi all -- >> >> I'm getting a '\a' when trying to insert into an empty list. Doesn't >> appear to be expected behavior. >> >> $ iex >> Erlang/OTP 19 [erts-8.0.2] [source-9503fff] [64-bit] [smp:2:2] >> [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] >> >> Interactive Elixir (1.3.2) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for >> help) >> iex(1)> List.insert_at([], 0, 7) >> '\a' >> iex(2)> List.insert_at([], 1, 7) >> '\a' >> iex(3)> List.insert_at([], 2, 7) >> '\a' >> iex(4)> List.insert_at([3], 2, 7) >> [3, 7] >> iex(5)> List.insert_at([3], 0, 7) >> [7, 3] >> iex(6)> List.insert_at([3], 1, 7) >> [3, 7] >> iex(7)> >> >> >> Thanks B >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elixir-lang-talk" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elixir-lang-ta...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-talk/CAF5zmfxOVPpDqVCQCTjHy5gJwEW74JbHH2m6BK3ADRubD5GoPA%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-talk/CAF5zmfxOVPpDqVCQCTjHy5gJwEW74JbHH2m6BK3ADRubD5GoPA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-talk/d608b065-be4f-457e-b532-b1a2fc80fe65%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
