Erlang Distributed Programming node method

Erlang Distributed Programming

This is used to determine the value of the node on which the process needs to run. Since distributed programming is used to run functions on different nodes, this function comes in handy when programs need to be run on different machines.

Syntax

node()

Parameters

• No parameters

Return Value

This will return the name of the local node.nonode@nohostReturn if the node is not distributed.

-module(helloworld).　
-export([start/0]).　
start()　->
　　　io:fwrite("~p",[node()]).

Output Result

When we run the above program, we will get the following results.

nonode@nohost

Erlang Distributed Programming