ocaml/stdlib/string.mli

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(***********************************************************************)
(* *)
(* Objective Caml *)
(* *)
(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
(* *)
(* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
(* en Automatique. Distributed only by permission. *)
(* *)
(***********************************************************************)
(* $Id$ *)
(* Module [String]: string operations *)
external length : string -> int = "%string_length"
(* Return the length (number of characters) of the given string. *)
external get : string -> int -> char = "%string_safe_get"
(* [String.get s n] returns character number [n] in string [s].
The first character is character number 0.
The last character is character number [String.length s - 1].
Raise [Invalid_argument] if [n] is outside the range
0 to [(String.length s - 1)].
You can also write [s.[n]] instead of [String.get s n]. *)
external set : string -> int -> char -> unit = "%string_safe_set"
(* [String.set s n c] modifies string [s] in place,
replacing the character number [n] by [c].
Raise [Invalid_argument] if [n] is outside the range
0 to [(String.length s - 1)].
You can also write [s.[n] <- c] instead of [String.set s n c]. *)
external create : int -> string = "create_string"
(* [String.create n] returns a fresh string of length [n].
The string initially contains arbitrary characters. *)
val make : int -> char -> string
(* [String.make n c] returns a fresh string of length [n],
filled with the character [c]. *)
val copy : string -> string
(* Return a copy of the given string. *)
val sub : string -> int -> int -> string
(* [String.sub s start len] returns a fresh string of length [len],
containing the characters number [start] to [start + len - 1]
of string [s].
Raise [Invalid_argument] if [start] and [len] do not
designate a valid substring of [s]; that is, if [start < 0],
or [len < 0], or [start + len > String.length s]. *)
val fill : string -> int -> int -> char -> unit
(* [String.fill s start len c] modifies string [s] in place,
replacing the characters number [start] to [start + len - 1]
by [c].
Raise [Invalid_argument] if [start] and [len] do not
designate a valid substring of [s]. *)
val blit : string -> int -> string -> int -> int -> unit
(* [String.blit src srcoff dst dstoff len] copies [len] characters
from string [src], starting at character number [srcoff], to
string [dst], starting at character number [dstoff]. It works
correctly even if [src] and [dst] are the same string,
and the source and destination chunks overlap.
Raise [Invalid_argument] if [srcoff] and [len] do not
designate a valid substring of [src], or if [dstoff] and [len]
do not designate a valid substring of [dst]. *)
val concat : string -> string list -> string
(* [String.concat sep sl] catenates the list of strings [sl],
inserting the separator string [sep] between each. *)
val escaped: string -> string
(* Return a copy of the argument, with special characters represented
by escape sequences, following the lexical conventions of
Objective Caml. *)
val index: string -> char -> int
(* [String.index s c] returns the position of the leftmost
occurrence of character [c] in string [s].
Raise [Not_found] if [c] does not occur in [s]. *)
val rindex: string -> char -> int
(* [String.rindex s c] returns the position of the rightmost
occurrence of character [c] in string [s].
Raise [Not_found] if [c] does not occur in [s]. *)
val index_from: string -> int -> char -> int
val rindex_from: string -> int -> char -> int
(* Same as [String.index] and [String.rindex], but start
searching at the character position given as second argument.
[String.index s c] is equivalent to [String.index_from s 0 c],
and [String.rindex s c] to
[String.rindex_from s (String.length s - 1) c]. *)
val contains : string -> char -> bool
(* [String.contains s c] tests if character [c]
appears in the string [s]. *)
val contains_from : string -> int -> char -> bool
(* [String.contains_from s start c] tests if character [c]
appears in the substring of [s] starting from [start] to the end
of [s].
Raise [Invalid_argument] if [start] is not a valid index of [s]. *)
val rcontains_from : string -> int -> char -> bool
(* [String.rcontains_from s stop c] tests if character [c]
appears in the substring of [s] starting from the beginning
of [s] to index [stop].
Raise [Invalid_argument] if [stop] is not a valid index of [s]. *)
val uppercase: string -> string
(* Return a copy of the argument, with all lowercase letters
translated to uppercase, including accented letters of the ISO
Latin-1 (8859-1) character set. *)
val lowercase: string -> string
(* Return a copy of the argument, with all uppercase letters
translated to lowercase, including accented letters of the ISO
Latin-1 (8859-1) character set. *)
val capitalize: string -> string
(* Return a copy of the argument, with the first letter
set to uppercase. *)
val uncapitalize: string -> string
(* Return a copy of the argument, with the first letter
set to lowercase. *)
(*--*)
external unsafe_get : string -> int -> char = "%string_unsafe_get"
external unsafe_set : string -> int -> char -> unit = "%string_unsafe_set"
external unsafe_blit : string -> int -> string -> int -> int -> unit
= "blit_string" "noalloc"
external unsafe_fill : string -> int -> int -> char -> unit
= "fill_string" "noalloc"