Binaries
Get familiar with the use of binaries in Elixir.
Binaries
The binary type represents a sequence of bits. A binary literal looks like << term,... >>
.
The simplest term is just a number from 0
to 255
. The numbers are stored as successive bytes in the binary.
iex> b = << 1, 2, 3 >>
<<1, 2, 3>>
iex>
...