From: "Christopher A. Watford" <christopher.watford@gmail.com>
To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>,
William Lovas <wlovas@stwing.upenn.edu>,
caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Str.string_match incorrect
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:07:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8008871f041224190768113639@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1103936225.6201.243.camel@pelican.wigram>
On 25 Dec 2004 11:57:05 +1100, skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 04:40, Christopher A. Watford wrote:
>
> > Going by PCRE's documentation
>
> no idea why I would do that ...
>
> > Str.string_match (Str.regexp "a") "ab" 0 ;;
> >
> > And in PCRE /a/ matches "ab" or "aa" or "ba".
>
> # Str.string_match (Str.regexp "a") "xax" 0;;
> - : bool = false
>
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>
>From the documentation, as you have pointed out (now I see what you
mean), it does not make this constraint obvious. It appears that
string_match's documentation should include that an implicit ^ is
added. string_partial_match makes this clear however.
--
Christopher A. Watford
christopher.watford@gmail.com
http://dorm.tunkeymicket.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-25 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-22 3:49 skaller
2004-12-22 7:44 ` [Caml-list] " Evan Martin
2004-12-22 8:00 ` William Lovas
2004-12-22 8:38 ` Evan Martin
2004-12-22 10:37 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2004-12-22 15:57 ` skaller
2004-12-22 16:58 ` David Brown
2004-12-23 2:33 ` skaller
2004-12-24 17:40 ` Christopher A. Watford
2004-12-25 0:57 ` skaller
2004-12-25 3:07 ` Christopher A. Watford [this message]
2004-12-25 4:24 ` skaller
2004-12-26 1:14 ` William Lovas
2004-12-22 17:26 ` Kurt Welgehausen
2004-12-23 2:09 ` skaller
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