From: "Evan Martin" <martine@danga.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Str.string_match incorrect
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:38:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041222083815.GA81468@trout> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041222080009.GA4501@force.stwing.upenn.edu>
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:00:10AM -0500, William Lovas wrote:
> I concur with your assessment, but i think you're characterization of the
> semantics of string_partial_match is inaccurate:
>
> # Str.string_match (Str.regexp "ab") "a" 0;;
> - : bool = false
> # Str.string_partial_match (Str.regexp "ab") "a" 0;;
> - : bool = true
> # Str.string_match (Str.regexp ".*ab") "a" 0;;
> - : bool = false
>
> ... unless of course, i've misunderstood you. I don't think there's a
> simple transformation on regular expressions that allow you to emulate
> string_partial_match's behavior using only string_match. (Does anyone
> care to prove me wrong? :)
No misunderstanding except for mine. You are correct.
(I had assumed, without reading the docs, that the match/partial_match
distinction would be like Python's match/search.)
--
Evan Martin
martine@danga.com
http://neugierig.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-22 8:30 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 [this message]
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
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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