From: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] open_file
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:58:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050125225853.GC667@first.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41F6CB7B.7050406@1969.ws>
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:43:07PM -0800, Karl Zilles wrote:
> (forgot to copy the list, originally)
>
> yjc01@doc.ic.ac.uk wrote:
>
> > I tried to read in a text file and extract the string between (* and
> *) into a variable, buff, by using the openfile and read functions in
> Unix module. But get an error on compilation.
>
>
> My guess is that you aren't including the unix library on your compile
> command line:
>
> ocamlc [other_options] unix.cma [other_files]
> ocamlopt [other_options] unix.cmxa [other_files]
>
OH,awell, the error was during compilation?
Well, I have overlooked this.
It's *always* good to have more informations on the kind of errors.
When the compilation-errors are gone, I'm sure there will be many
errors possivle during execution....
[...]
> > print_int file_content;
> > print_string !buff;;
> > main ();
> > I couldn't work out what went wrong. Can anyone help?!!
It couldn't work, because there is only one ";" at the last line...
>
> Also, using the Unix libray is probably overkill for this kind of thing.
Seems so.
> You might want to switch to the Pervasives library, which is
> automatically included with all ocaml programs.
Yes - that's a good high-level handling of I/O. It's buffered
and a quite good thing! :)
Ciao,
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-25 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-25 22:19 open_file yjc01
2005-01-25 22:43 ` [Caml-list] open_file Karl Zilles
2005-01-25 22:58 ` Oliver Bandel [this message]
2005-01-26 14:41 ` [Caml-list] read file Yan Jun Daisy Chen
2005-01-26 15:50 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-01-25 22:54 ` [Caml-list] open_file Karl Zilles
2005-01-26 10:16 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-01-25 22:54 ` Oliver Bandel
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