Re: [Caml-list] Camlp4 help/questions

[Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Josh Smith wrote:

> I apologize if this is not the right list to send this too, but I'm 
> nearing my feeble wits' end and I'm starting here...

I don't think Camlp4 is the right tool.  It's mainly an Ocaml 
preprocessor, you want Ocaml code that parses the line.

Ocamllex/Ocamlyacc are great for a lot of things- but I think I agree, 
they're also the wrong tools for the job.

I think what you want is a split function- a function that takes a string 
and splits it up at certan characters.  It'd have a type something like:
val split: char -> string -> string list

You'd then read an entire line, split it apart on '|'.  You could then 
split various substrings on ';' to get the integers, etc.

Hope this helps.

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Brian

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