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From: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
Subject: Re: help with regular expression
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:11:29 +0000 (UTC)
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On 06-12-2010, David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com> wrote:
> zaid Khalid wrote:
>>
>
>> Hint I am using (Str.regexp)
>
> There are other libraries (e.g. pcre-ocaml) which provide different (I
> would say more powerful, rather than strictly better!)
> implementations.
>
>

There is also syntax extension like mikmatch, that helps to write regexp
in a very meaningful syntax:

match str with 
| RE bol "a"* | "ab"* eol ->
  true
| _ ->
  false

http://martin.jambon.free.fr/mikmatch-manual.html
http://martin.jambon.free.fr/mikmatch.html

You can use pcre and str with mikmatch.

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall