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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


  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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