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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Escaped string in sexplib
From: Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
To: Hugo Ferreira <hmf@inescporto.pt>
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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:44, Hugo Ferreira <hmf@inescporto.pt> wrote:
> I am trying to us the Sexplib library to process data.
> However I am having some trouble with strings.
> Specifically I need to save and restore strings to a file
> so that the escaping done during saving is "undone"
> when data is read back in.
>
> How can I do this? Appreciate any pointers.

The I/O and parsing routines in the S-expression library should take
care of escaped strings just fine.  Btw., the escaping conventions are
absolutely identical to the ones used by OCaml.

Regards,
Markus

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