Re: [Caml-list] Create Array of floats from string

[Francois BERENGER <francois.c.berenger@vanderbilt.edu>]

On 04/26/2017 06:02 AM, rixed@happyleptic.org wrote:
> If speed is more important than readability I would avoid creating the
> intermediary list of strings and go with Str.search_forward, then extract that
> string and convert it to float.
>
> If the separator is as simple as a space I'd expect String.index_from to be
> slightly faster. Also consider BatString.find_all that returns an enum (of
> starting positions - unfortunately we do not have BatString.split variant
> returning an enum of substrings directly).

Could be welcome into batteries.

> If that's not enough you'd have to use another library to parse the string, one
> that would implement something like `float_of_string_from` so that you do not
> have to build all those useless substrings.

This one too, BatFloat.of_string_from
but we need a little bit more specification to know what's the expected 
behavior (especially, when does the float part of the string ends?).

You can go there for any feature request:
https://github.com/ocaml-batteries-team/batteries-included/issues

Regards,
F.