From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id XAA17516; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:47:40 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA17317 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:47:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from marble.he.net (marble.he.net [216.218.230.2]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1HMlcf21631 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:47:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from ucdavis.edu ([208.227.214.58] (may be forged)) by marble.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id OAA19020 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:47:36 -0800 Message-ID: <3E5167D3.8060203@ucdavis.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:53:07 -0800 From: Issac Trotts User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020913 Debian/1.1-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OCaml List Subject: [Caml-list] Re: "ocaml_beginners"::[] string to list References: <20030217222143.GH84038@merkur.cert.siemens.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Christian Schaller wrote: >Hi everyone! > >I'm trying to find a built in function for converting a string to a list of >characters, similar to SML's explode. Is something like this available? > >Thank you! > >- Chris > # let explode s = let n = String.length s in let rec aux k = if k = n then [] else s.[k] :: aux (k+1) in aux 0;; val explode : string -> char list = # explode "foo";; - : char list = ['f'; 'o'; 'o'] Issac ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners