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From: Chris Conway <cconway@cs.nyu.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Regular expression matching against OCaml streams.
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:49:16 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20090112T154624-248@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496B54DF.7080303@gmail.com>

Edgar Friendly <thelema314 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Dmitri Boulytchev wrote:
> >    Hello,
> > 
> >    is it possible to match OCam streams (by mean of Stream.t) against
> > regular expressions? Are there library
> > that can be used for this purpose? Str matches only against strings.
> 
> I don't know of any libraries for this purpose.  I will warn anyone
> making one that it's easy for simple regex matching to evaluate the
> whole stream, and then fail to match.

Or worse, never terminate. E.g.,

    stream_match "a*b" (Stream.from (fun _ -> Some 'a'))

Regards,
Chris


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-12 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-12 13:00 Dmitri Boulytchev
2009-01-12 14:34 ` [Caml-list] " Edgar Friendly
2009-01-12 15:49   ` Chris Conway [this message]
2009-01-12 16:59     ` [Caml-list] " Dmitri Boulytchev

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