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From: Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler+ocaml@umh.ac.be>
To: camaradetux@gmail.com
Cc: skaller@users.sourceforge.net, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:19:07 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070806.181907.116754013.Christophe.Troestler+ocaml@umh.ac.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <666572260708060234q22951768uadb275d4bc498ad8@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:34:01 +0200, Adrien wrote:
> 
> I was debugguing a regular-expression and noticed that \" in a string
> remained as-is and this somehow seems linked to my quotation problem :
>   # let a="\"";;
>   val a : string = "\""
> 
>   # let a="\034";;
>   val a : string = "\""
> 
> Is it expected behaviour? :o

Yes.  Your misunderstanding seems to come from the fact that it is
displayed as \" because it is quoted, this the usual quoting rules
apply.  But

# "\"".[0];;
- : char = '"'

ChriS


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-06 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05 23:19 ocamlbuild skaller
2007-08-06  7:36 ` [Caml-list] ocamlbuild Adrien
2007-08-06  9:34   ` Adrien
2007-08-06 12:14     ` David Allsopp
2007-08-06 16:19     ` Christophe TROESTLER [this message]
2007-08-08  4:12 ` Aleksey Nogin
2007-08-09 18:35 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-09-05  8:36 ocamlbuild skaller
2007-09-17 11:56 ` [Caml-list] ocamlbuild Nicolas Pouillard
2007-09-17 16:21   ` skaller
2007-09-25 11:45     ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-09-25 14:19       ` skaller
2007-09-26  8:42         ` Nicolas Pouillard

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