Astring — Alternative String module for OCaml#

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Astring exposes an alternative String module for OCaml. This module tries to balance minimality and expressiveness for basic, index-free, string processing and provides types and functions for substrings, string sets and string maps.

Remaining compatible with the OCaml String module is a non-goal. The String module exposed by Astring has exception safe functions, removes deprecated and rarely used functions, alters some signatures and names, adds a few missing functions and fully exploits OCaml's newfound string immutability.

Astring depends only on the OCaml standard library. It is distributed under the ISC license.

Home page: http://erratique.ch/software/astring

Installation#

Astring can be installed with opam:

opam install astring

If you don't use opam consult the opam file for build instructions.

Documentation#

The documentation and API reference is automatically generated by ocamldoc from the interfaces. It can be consulted online or via odig doc astring.

Sample programs#

If you installed Astring with opam sample programs are located in the directory opam config var astring:doc.