(***********************************************************************) (* *) (* OCaml *) (* *) (* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *) (* *) (* 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. *) (* *) (***********************************************************************) (** String operations. A string is an immutable data structure that contains a fixed-length sequence of (single-byte) characters. Each character can be accessed in constant time through its index. Given a string [s] of length [l], we can access each of the [l] characters of [s] via its index in the sequence. Indexes start at [0], and we will call an index valid in [s] if it falls within the range [[0...l-1]] (inclusive). A position is the point between two characters or at the beginning or end of the string. We call a position valid in [s] if it falls within the range [[0...l]] (inclusive). Note that the character at index [n] is between positions [n] and [n+1]. Two parameters [start] and [len] are said to designate a valid substring of [s] if [len >= 0] and [start] and [start+len] are valid positions in [s]. OCaml strings used to be modifiable in place, for instance via the {!String.set} and {!String.blit} functions described below. This usage is deprecated and only possible when the compiler is put in "unsafe-string" mode by giving the [-unsafe-string] command-line option (which is currently the default for reasons of backward compatibility). This is done by making the types [string] and [bytes] (see module {!Bytes}) interchangeable so that functions expecting byte sequences can also accept strings as arguments and modify them. All new code should avoid this feature and be compiled with the [-safe-string] command-line option to enforce the separation between the types [string] and [bytes]. *) 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 the character at index [n] in string [s]. You can also write [s.[n]] instead of [String.get s n]. Raise [Invalid_argument] if [n] not a valid index in [s]. *) external set : bytes -> int -> char -> unit = "%string_safe_set" [@@ocaml.deprecated "Use Bytes.set instead."] (** [String.set s n c] modifies byte sequence [s] in place, replacing the byte at index [n] with [c]. You can also write [s.[n] <- c] instead of [String.set s n c]. Raise [Invalid_argument] if [n] is not a valid index in [s]. @deprecated This is a deprecated alias of {!Bytes.set}.[ ] *) external create : int -> bytes = "caml_create_string" [@@ocaml.deprecated "Use Bytes.create instead."] (** [String.create n] returns a fresh byte sequence of length [n]. The sequence is uninitialized and contains arbitrary bytes. Raise [Invalid_argument] if [n < 0] or [n > ]{!Sys.max_string_length}. @deprecated This is a deprecated alias of {!Bytes.create}.[ ] *) val make : int -> char -> string (** [String.make n c] returns a fresh string of length [n], filled with the character [c]. Raise [Invalid_argument] if [n < 0] or [n > ]{!Sys.max_string_length}. *) val init : int -> (int -> char) -> string (** [String.init n f] returns a string of length [n], with character [i] initialized to the result of [f i] (called in increasing index order). Raise [Invalid_argument] if [n < 0] or [n > ]{!Sys.max_string_length}. @since 4.02.0 *) val copy : string -> string [@@ocaml.deprecated] (** Return a copy of the given string. @deprecated Because strings are immutable, it doesn't make much sense to make identical copies of them. *) val sub : string -> int -> int -> string (** [String.sub s start len] returns a fresh string of length [len], containing the substring of [s] that starts at position [start] and has length [len]. Raise [Invalid_argument] if [start] and [len] do not designate a valid substring of [s]. *) val fill : bytes -> int -> int -> char -> unit [@@ocaml.deprecated "Use Bytes.fill instead."] (** [String.fill s start len c] modifies byte sequence [s] in place, replacing [len] bytes with [c], starting at [start]. Raise [Invalid_argument] if [start] and [len] do not designate a valid range of [s]. @deprecated This is a deprecated alias of {!Bytes.fill}.[ ] *) val blit : string -> int -> bytes -> int -> int -> unit (** Same as {!Bytes.blit_string}. *) val concat : string -> string list -> string (** [String.concat sep sl] concatenates the list of strings [sl], inserting the separator string [sep] between each. Raise [Invalid_argument] if the result is longer than {!Sys.max_string_length} bytes. *) val iter : (char -> unit) -> string -> unit (** [String.iter f s] applies function [f] in turn to all the characters of [s]. It is equivalent to [f s.[0]; f s.[1]; ...; f s.[String.length s - 1]; ()]. *) val iteri : (int -> char -> unit) -> string -> unit (** Same as {!String.iter}, but the function is applied to the index of the element as first argument (counting from 0), and the character itself as second argument. @since 4.00.0 *) val map : (char -> char) -> string -> string (** [String.map f s] applies function [f] in turn to all the characters of [s] (in increasing index order) and stores the results in a new string that is returned. @since 4.00.0 *) val mapi : (int -> char -> char) -> string -> string (** [String.mapi f s] calls [f] with each character of [s] and its index (in increasing index order) and stores the results in a new string that is returned. @since 4.02.0 *) val trim : string -> string (** Return a copy of the argument, without leading and trailing whitespace. The characters regarded as whitespace are: [' '], ['\012'], ['\n'], ['\r'], and ['\t']. If there is neither leading nor trailing whitespace character in the argument, return the original string itself, not a copy. @since 4.00.0 *) val escaped : string -> string (** Return a copy of the argument, with special characters represented by escape sequences, following the lexical conventions of OCaml. If there is no special character in the argument, return the original string itself, not a copy. Its inverse function is Scanf.unescaped. Raise [Invalid_argument] if the result is longer than {!Sys.max_string_length} bytes. *) val index : string -> char -> int (** [String.index s c] returns the index of the first 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 index of the last occurrence of character [c] in string [s]. Raise [Not_found] if [c] does not occur in [s]. *) val index_from : string -> int -> char -> int (** [String.index_from s i c] returns the index of the first occurrence of character [c] in string [s] after position [i]. [String.index s c] is equivalent to [String.index_from s 0 c]. Raise [Invalid_argument] if [i] is not a valid position in [s]. Raise [Not_found] if [c] does not occur in [s] after position [i]. *) val rindex_from : string -> int -> char -> int (** [String.rindex_from s i c] returns the index of the last occurrence of character [c] in string [s] before position [i+1]. [String.rindex s c] is equivalent to [String.rindex_from s (String.length s - 1) c]. Raise [Invalid_argument] if [i+1] is not a valid position in [s]. Raise [Not_found] if [c] does not occur in [s] before position [i+1]. *) 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 [s] after position [start]. [String.contains s c] is equivalent to [String.contains_from s 0 c]. Raise [Invalid_argument] if [start] is not a valid position in [s]. *) val rcontains_from : string -> int -> char -> bool (** [String.rcontains_from s stop c] tests if character [c] appears in [s] before position [stop+1]. Raise [Invalid_argument] if [stop < 0] or [stop+1] is not a valid position in [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 character set to uppercase. *) val uncapitalize : string -> string (** Return a copy of the argument, with the first character set to lowercase. *) type t = string (** An alias for the type of strings. *) val compare: t -> t -> int (** The comparison function for strings, with the same specification as {!Pervasives.compare}. Along with the type [t], this function [compare] allows the module [String] to be passed as argument to the functors {!Set.Make} and {!Map.Make}. *) (** Functions reading bytes *) val get_char: t -> int -> char (** [get_char buff i] reads 1 byte at offset i as a char *) val get_uint8: t -> int -> int (** [get_uint8 buff i] reads 1 byte at offset i as an unsigned int of 8 bits. i.e. It returns a value between 0 and 2^8-1 *) val get_int8: t -> int -> int (** [get_int8 buff i] reads 1 byte at offset i as a signed int of 8 bits. i.e. It returns a value between -2^7 and 2^7-1 *) (** Functions reading according to Big Endian byte order *) val get_uint16: t -> int -> int (** [get_uint16 buff i] reads 2 bytes at offset i as an unsigned int of 16 bits. i.e. It returns a value between 0 and 2^16-1 *) val get_int16: t -> int -> int (** [get_int16 buff i] reads 2 byte at offset i as a signed int of 16 bits. i.e. It returns a value between -2^15 and 2^15-1 *) val get_int32: t -> int -> int32 (** [get_int32 buff i] reads 4 bytes at offset i as an int32. *) val get_int64: t -> int -> int64 (** [get_int64 buff i] reads 8 bytes at offset i as an int64. *) module LE: sig (** Functions reading according to Little Endian byte order *) val get_uint16: t -> int -> int (** [get_uint16 buff i] reads 2 bytes at offset i as an unsigned int of 16 bits. i.e. It returns a value between 0 and 2^16-1 *) val get_int16: t -> int -> int (** [get_int16 buff i] reads 2 byte at offset i as a signed int of 16 bits. i.e. It returns a value between -2^15 and 2^15-1 *) val get_int32: t -> int -> int32 (** [get_int32 buff i] reads 4 bytes at offset i as an int32. *) val get_int64: t -> int -> int64 (** [get_int64 buff i] reads 8 bytes at offset i as an int64. *) end