What is a record and how you can define records in Erlang?

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For storing a fixed number of elements, a data structure is used which is referred as record. Expressions are translated into tuple expressions during compilation record.

Record in Erlang is defined by the name of the record, followed by the field names of the record. Record and field names must be atoms.

• record (Name, { Field1 [= Value] , … FieldN [= ValueN] } )

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