Re: [Caml-list] Str, regular expressions, longest match

[Christophe Raffalli <Christophe.Raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>]

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On 14-09-29 21:04:17, Tom Ridge wrote:
>    Dear All,
>    I am trying to use the Str module to match regular expressions. I want to
>    return the longest match.
>    let txt = "ab"
>    let reg = "a\\|ab"
>    let _ =A 
>    A  let b = Str.string_match (Str.regexp reg) txt 0 in
>    A  Str.matched_string txt
>    After the last line, the string "a" is apparently matched. But I hope that
>    the result should be "ab". If I reverse the order of the alternatives in
>    the regular expression, the string "ab" is matched. I don't want the order
>    of the alternatives to matter. What am I doing wrong? What can I do to
>    match the longest substring?
>    Thanks
>    Tom

Hello,

I had the same problem just last week and almost wrote the same mail.

This is at least a bug in the documentation ?

Cheers,
Christophe

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