Re: [Caml-list] [repost] Request for more String functions

[ChoJin <chojin@lrde.epita.fr>]

Shawn Wagner <shawnw@speakeasy.org> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 07:44:49PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:34:39AM -0800, Dustin Sallings wrote:
>> > val split : string -> char -> int -> string list
>> > val split_chars : string -> char list -> int -> string list
>> > val strstr : string -> string -> int -> int
>> > val ends_with : string -> string -> bool
>> > val begins_with : string -> string -> bool
>> > val string_of_chars : char list -> string
>> 
>> Yes, ends_with and begins_with - I keep copying those functions from
>> file to file.  It'd be great to have them in the std lib.
>
> <Plug> Many of these (And everything the OP asked for, though I had to add
> some of them just now) are in my extlib library
> (http://raevnos.pennmush.org/code/extlib/), though under different names.
> It's a collection of things that would be useful in the standard libraries
> that come with ocaml, but aren't there. I keep adding to it all the time
> (Also just added the getpgid/setpgid functions also just requested on the
> list).

I'm a beginner in ocaml, but from time to time I have to convert a
char to a string. And I was surprised when I couldn't find
"string_of_char".

Is there a better way than String.make 1 my_char ?

-- 
Best Regards
ChoJin

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