ocaml/otherlibs/str/str.mli

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(* Objective Caml *)
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(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
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(* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
(* en Automatique. All rights reserved. This file is distributed *)
(* under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License, with *)
(* the special exception on linking described in file ../../LICENSE. *)
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(* $Id$ *)
(** Regular expressions and high-level string processing *)
(** {6 Regular expressions} *)
type regexp
(** The type of compiled regular expressions. *)
val regexp : string -> regexp
(** Compile a regular expression. The syntax for regular expressions
is the same as in Gnu Emacs. The special characters are
[$^.*+?[]]. The following constructs are recognized:
- [. ] matches any character except newline
- [* ] (postfix) matches the previous expression zero, one or
several times
- [+ ] (postfix) matches the previous expression one or
several times
- [? ] (postfix) matches the previous expression once or
not at all
- [[..] ] character set; ranges are denoted with [-], as in [[a-z]];
an initial [^], as in [[^0-9]], complements the set
- [^ ] matches at beginning of line
- [$ ] matches at end of line
- [\| ] (infix) alternative between two expressions
- [\(..\)] grouping and naming of the enclosed expression
- [\1 ] the text matched by the first [\(...\)] expression
([\2] for the second expression, and so on up to [\9])
- [\b ] matches word boundaries
- [\ ] quotes special characters. *)
val regexp_case_fold : string -> regexp
(** Same as [regexp], but the compiled expression will match text
in a case-insensitive way: uppercase and lowercase letters will
be considered equivalent. *)
val quote : string -> string
(** [Str.quote s] returns a regexp string that matches exactly
[s] and nothing else. *)
val regexp_string : string -> regexp
(** [Str.regexp_string s] returns a regular expression
that matches exactly [s] and nothing else.*)
val regexp_string_case_fold : string -> regexp
(** [Str.regexp_string_case_fold] is similar to {!Str.regexp_string},
but the regexp matches in a case-insensitive way. *)
(** {6 String matching and searching} *)
val string_match : regexp -> string -> int -> bool
(** [string_match r s start] tests whether the characters in [s]
starting at position [start] match the regular expression [r].
The first character of a string has position [0], as usual. *)
val search_forward : regexp -> string -> int -> int
(** [search_forward r s start] searchs the string [s] for a substring
matching the regular expression [r]. The search starts at position
[start] and proceeds towards the end of the string.
Return the position of the first character of the matched
substring, or raise [Not_found] if no substring matches. *)
val search_backward : regexp -> string -> int -> int
(** Same as {!Str.search_forward}, but the search proceeds towards the
beginning of the string. *)
val string_partial_match : regexp -> string -> int -> bool
(** Similar to {!Str.string_match}, but succeeds whenever the argument
string is a prefix of a string that matches. This includes
the case of a true complete match. *)
val matched_string : string -> string
(** [matched_string s] returns the substring of [s] that was matched
by the latest {!Str.string_match}, {!Str.search_forward} or
{!Str.search_backward}.
The user must make sure that the parameter [s] is the same string
that was passed to the matching or searching function. *)
val match_beginning : unit -> int
(** [match_beginning()] returns the position of the first character
of the substring that was matched by {!Str.string_match},
{!Str.search_forward} or {!Str.search_backward}. *)
val match_end : unit -> int
(** [match_end()] returns the position of the character following the
last character of the substring that was matched by [string_match],
[search_forward] or [search_backward]. *)
val matched_group : int -> string -> string
(** [matched_group n s] returns the substring of [s] that was matched
by the [n]th group [\(...\)] of the regular expression during
the latest {!Str.string_match}, {!Str.search_forward} or
{!Str.search_backward}.
The user must make sure that the parameter [s] is the same string
that was passed to the matching or searching function.
[matched_group n s] raises [Not_found] if the [n]th group
of the regular expression was not matched. This can happen
with groups inside alternatives [\|], options [?]
or repetitions [*]. For instance, the empty string will match
[\(a\)*], but [matched_group 1 ""] will raise [Not_found]
because the first group itself was not matched. *)
val group_beginning : int -> int
(** [group_beginning n] returns the position of the first character
of the substring that was matched by the [n]th group of
the regular expression.
@raise Not_found if the [n]th group of the regular expression
was not matched. *)
val group_end : int -> int
(** [group_end n] returns
the position of the character following the last character of
substring that was matched by the [n]th group of the regular expression.
@raise Not_found if the [n]th group of the regular expression
was not matched. *)
(** {6 Replacement} *)
val global_replace : regexp -> string -> string -> string
(** [global_replace regexp templ s] returns a string identical to [s],
except that all substrings of [s] that match [regexp] have been
replaced by [templ]. The replacement template [templ] can contain
[\1], [\2], etc; these sequences will be replaced by the text
matched by the corresponding group in the regular expression.
[\0] stands for the text matched by the whole regular expression. *)
val replace_first : regexp -> string -> string -> string
(** Same as {!Str.global_replace}, except that only the first substring
matching the regular expression is replaced. *)
val global_substitute : regexp -> (string -> string) -> string -> string
(** [global_substitute regexp subst s] returns a string identical
to [s], except that all substrings of [s] that match [regexp]
have been replaced by the result of function [subst]. The
function [subst] is called once for each matching substring,
and receives [s] (the whole text) as argument. *)
val substitute_first : regexp -> (string -> string) -> string -> string
(** Same as {!Str.global_substitute}, except that only the first substring
matching the regular expression is replaced. *)
val replace_matched : string -> string -> string
(** [replace_matched repl s] returns the replacement text [repl]
in which [\1], [\2], etc. have been replaced by the text
matched by the corresponding groups in the most recent matching
operation. [s] must be the same string that was matched during
this matching operation. *)
(** {6 Splitting} *)
val split : regexp -> string -> string list
(** [split r s] splits [s] into substrings, taking as delimiters
the substrings that match [r], and returns the list of substrings.
For instance, [split (regexp "[ \t]+") s] splits [s] into
blank-separated words. An occurrence of the delimiter at the
beginning and at the end of the string is ignored. *)
val bounded_split : regexp -> string -> int -> string list
(** Same as {!Str.split}, but splits into at most [n] substrings,
where [n] is the extra integer parameter. *)
val split_delim : regexp -> string -> string list
(** Same as {!Str.split} but occurrences of the
delimiter at the beginning and at the end of the string are
recognized and returned as empty strings in the result.
For instance, [split_delim (regexp " ") " abc "]
returns [[""; "abc"; ""]], while [split] with the same
arguments returns [["abc"]]. *)
val bounded_split_delim : regexp -> string -> int -> string list
(** Same as {!Str.bounded_split}, but occurrences of the
delimiter at the beginning and at the end of the string are
recognized and returned as empty strings in the result. *)
type split_result =
Text of string
| Delim of string
val full_split : regexp -> string -> split_result list
(** Same as {!Str.split_delim}, but returns
the delimiters as well as the substrings contained between
delimiters. The former are tagged [Delim] in the result list;
the latter are tagged [Text]. For instance,
[full_split (regexp "[{}]") "{ab}"] returns
[[Delim "{"; Text "ab"; Delim "}"]]. *)
val bounded_full_split : regexp -> string -> int -> split_result list
(** Same as {!Str.bounded_split_delim}, but returns
the delimiters as well as the substrings contained between
delimiters. The former are tagged [Delim] in the result list;
the latter are tagged [Text]. *)
(** {6 Extracting substrings} *)
val string_before : string -> int -> string
(** [string_before s n] returns the substring of all characters of [s]
that precede position [n] (excluding the character at
position [n]). *)
val string_after : string -> int -> string
(** [string_after s n] returns the substring of all characters of [s]
that follow position [n] (including the character at
position [n]). *)
val first_chars : string -> int -> string
(** [first_chars s n] returns the first [n] characters of [s].
This is the same function as {!Str.string_before}. *)
val last_chars : string -> int -> string
(** [last_chars s n] returns the last [n] characters of [s]. *)