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title: "How we can send and receive message in Erlang?"  
description: "How we can send and receive message in Erlang?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-06-25  
updated: 2020-09-24  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2661/how-we-can-send-and-receive-message-in-erlang  
category: "erlang"  
tags: ["functional programming", "concurrent programming", "erlang"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How we can send and receive message in Erlang?

For sending message Erlang uses the exclamation mark (!) as the operator for sending a message. The syntax used for sending a message is Pid ! Message.For receiving message Erlang uses Pattern Matching, to deliver a message from the message queue receive statement is used.\

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

For sending message Erlang uses the exclamation mark (!) as the operator for sending a message. The syntax used for sending a message is Pid ! Message.For receiving message Erlang uses Pattern Matching, to deliver a message from the message queue receive statement is used.\


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