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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Juancarlo A?ez <apalala@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr, ocaml-lib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] String to list to string
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:09:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050210100915.GA7508@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <420ac293.30127b31.1fa8.0b02@smtp.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:10:03PM -0400, Juancarlo A?ez wrote:
> 
> Why aren't there functions in the standard library to convert strings to
> lists of characters and back?

As others have said, these functions are not in the standard library.
However, useful functions like these[1] are available in Extlib, which
you can find here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocaml-lib/

and is also available as a binary package for various platforms such
as Debian.

It contains important functions such as String.map,
String.replace_chars, String.slice, String.starts_with,
String.ends_with, and many more.

Rich.

[1] Although embarrassingly, it appears, not these exact functions,
which is why I've CC'd to ocaml-lib-devel list.  To ocaml-lib-devel:
we should provide implementations of
http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/FAQ_EXPERT-eng.html#strings

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-10 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-07  2:24 Fwd: Re: [Caml-list] The boon of static type checking Jon Harrop
2005-02-07  2:55 ` skaller
2005-02-10  2:10 ` String to list to string Juancarlo Añez
2005-02-10  2:27   ` [Caml-list] " William D.Neumann
2005-02-10  3:24     ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-02-10  6:31       ` Radu Grigore
2005-02-10  6:52         ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-02-10  3:41   ` Jon Harrop
2005-02-15  1:16     ` Aaron Bohannon
2005-02-15 10:33       ` Richard Jones
2005-02-15 13:34         ` Eric C. Cooper
2005-02-10 10:09   ` Richard Jones [this message]
2005-02-10 19:19     ` Juancarlo Añez
     [not found]     ` <E1CzJqb-00031c-00@furbychan.cocan.org>
2005-02-10 19:41       ` Richard Jones
2005-02-10 17:58   ` brogoff
2005-02-10 18:35 Harrison, John R
2005-02-10 19:28 ` Jon Harrop
2005-02-11  1:22   ` skaller
2005-02-11  2:05     ` John Prevost
2005-02-10 19:32 ` brogoff
2005-02-10 19:51 Harrison, John R
2005-02-10 21:18 Harrison, John R

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