ocamlnet (aka netstring)

ocamlnet (aka netstring)

[Anastasia Gornostaeva]

Hello.

It is not possible to use Ocamlnet because the API of pcre-ocaml library
was changed. Will the author update in the future this library?

from changelog of pcre-ocaml:

2004-04-29:  Changed behaviour of "get_substring"!!!

             It now does not return the empty string anymore if an
             accessed substring was not captured.  It raises the exception
             "Not_found" instead.


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Re: [Caml-list] ocamlnet (aka netstring)

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 08:31:59PM +0400, Anastasia Gornostaeva wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> It is not possible to use Ocamlnet because the API of pcre-ocaml library
> was changed. Will the author update in the future this library?
> 
> from changelog of pcre-ocaml:
> 
> 2004-04-29:  Changed behaviour of "get_substring"!!!
> 
>              It now does not return the empty string anymore if an
>              accessed substring was not captured.  It raises the exception
>              "Not_found" instead.

Luckily this change can be made in a backwards-compatible way.  I had
to do it for mod_caml IIRC.

Rich.

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Re: [Caml-list] ocamlnet (aka netstring)

[Markus Mottl]

On 6/24/05, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> Luckily this change can be made in a backwards-compatible way.  I had
> to do it for mod_caml IIRC.

Yes, that was also the reason for the change: it gives you more
options, because you can (but need not) map the exception to the empty
string. It is trivial to get the old behaviour back, but the new one
seems to be a saner default.

Regards,
Markus

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