1 Introduction

1.1 Scope

The Standard Erlang Libraries application, STDLIB, is mandatory in the sense that the minimal system based on Erlang/OTP consists of STDLIB and Kernel.

STDLIB contains the following functional areas:

Erlang shell
Command interface
Query interface
Interface to standard Erlang I/O servers
Interface to the Erlang built-in term storage BIFs
Regular expression matching functions for strings and binaries
Finite state machine
Event handling
Functions for the server of a client-server relation
Function to control applications in a distributed manner
Start and control of slave nodes
Operations on finite sets and relations represented as sets
Library for handling binary data
Disk-based term storage
List processing
Maps processing

1.2 Prerequisites

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming language.