Re: [Caml-list] (Sorry for my last post) lazyness, exceptions?, ocaml syntax rule-of-thumbs

["Kontra, Gergely" <kgergely@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu>]

>> > a function, which checks, whether a string can match a regexp, and
>> > return true or false. Search_forward, again, I think should be return an
>> > option, and not trowing an exception.
>> See Str.string_match : regexp -> string -> int -> bool
[...]

>        Str.string_match (Str.regexp ".*\\.html$") filename 0
>and
>        try
>          ignore(Str.search_forward (Str.regexp "\\.html$") filename 0);
>          true
>        with Not_found ->
>          false

Thanks a lot, it was a useful post!
But isn't this functionally so often needed, that it worth to wrap it
into a function?
In many cases it is enough to test, whether a string contains another
string, is it a function for that?

Gergo
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