From 6a84dd2db8b26dd3332b3a3da8aab9f1887860bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sverker Eriksson <sverker@erlang.org>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 19:32:31 +0200
Subject: stdlib: Improve example for binary:referenced_byte_size/1
---
lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
(limited to 'lib')
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml
index f3d4edd30f..fd991f258b 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml
@@ -505,15 +505,16 @@ store(Binary, GBSet) ->
<<1,1,1,1,1 ...
2> byte_size(A).
100
-3> binary:referenced_byte_size(A)
+3> binary:referenced_byte_size(A).
100
-4> <<_:10/binary,B:10/binary,_/binary>> = A.
+4> <<B:10/binary, C:90/binary>> = A.
<<1,1,1,1,1 ...
-5> byte_size(B).
-10
-6> binary:referenced_byte_size(B)
-100</code>
-
+5> {byte_size(B), binary:referenced_byte_size(B)}.
+{10,10}
+6> {byte_size(C), binary:referenced_byte_size(C)}.
+{90,100}</code>
+ <p>In the above example, the small binary <c>B</c> was copied while the
+ larger binary <c>C</c> references binary <c>A</c>.</p>
<note>
<p>Binary data is shared among processes. If another process
still references the larger binary, copying the part this
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