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| author | Ingela Anderton Andin <[email protected]> | 2015-10-16 11:43:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingela Anderton Andin <[email protected]> | 2015-10-26 14:54:51 +0100 |
| commit | 18270f5c208149323964ff9057b1b740cb72ea85 (patch) | |
| tree | 21d649cdceed21463c108ad378e13817a4e0f014 /erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | |
| parent | afac3c7136c48d8630bd400c5454e146915e634f (diff) | |
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erts: Clarify documentation
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml index 1963b27915..70d000f763 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml @@ -874,10 +874,10 @@ </item> <tag><c>line</c></tag> <item> - <p>A packet is a line terminated with newline. The - newline character is included in the returned packet - unless the line was truncated according to option - <c>line_length</c>.</p> + <p>A packet is a line terminated by a delimiter byte, + default is the latin1 newline character. The delimiter + byte is included in the returned packet unless the line + was truncated according to option <c>line_length</c>.</p> </item> <tag><c>asn1 | cdr | sunrm | fcgi | tpkt</c></tag> <item> @@ -933,9 +933,9 @@ if <c>packet_size</c> itself is not set. This use is only intended for backward compatibility.</p> </item> - <tag><c>{line_delimiter, 0 ≤ char() ≤ 255}</c></tag> - <item><p>For packet type <c>line</c>, sets delimiting character. - Default <c>$\n</c>.</p> + <tag><c>{line_delimiter, 0 =< byte() =< 255}</c></tag> + <item><p>For packet type <c>line</c>, sets the delimiting byte. + Default is the latin1 character <c>$\n</c>.</p> </item> </taglist> <p>Examples:</p> |