String (docs.findlib-1.ppxlib.stdppx.Stdppx.String)

include module type of struct include StdLabels.String end

Strings

type t = string

The type for strings.

val make : int -> char -> string

make n c is a string of length n with each index holding the character c.

raises Invalid_argument
if n < 0 or n > Sys.max_string_length.

val init : int -> f:(int -> char) -> string

init n ~f is a string of length n with index i holding the character f i (called in increasing index order).

raises Invalid_argument
if n < 0 or n > Sys.max_string_length.

since 4.02

val empty : string

The empty string.

since 4.13

val length : string -> int

length s is the length (number of bytes/characters) of s.

val get : string -> int -> char

get s i is the character at index i in s. This is the same as writing s.[i].

raises Invalid_argument
if i not an index of s.

val of_bytes : bytes -> string

Return a new string that contains the same bytes as the given byte sequence.

since 4.13

val to_bytes : string -> bytes

Return a new byte sequence that contains the same bytes as the given string.

since 4.13

val blit : 
  src:string ->
  src_pos:int ->
  dst:bytes ->
  dst_pos:int ->
  len:int ->
  unit

Same as Bytes.blit_string which should be preferred.

Concatenating

Note. The Stdlib.(^) binary operator concatenates two strings.

val concat : sep:string -> string list -> string

concat ~sep ss concatenates the list of strings ss, inserting the separator string sep between each.

raises Invalid_argument
if the result is longer than Sys.max_string_length bytes.

val cat : string -> string -> string

cat s1 s2 concatenates s1 and s2 (s1 ^ s2).

raises Invalid_argument
if the result is longer than Sys.max_string_length bytes.

since 4.13

Predicates and comparisons

val starts_with : prefix:string -> string -> bool

starts_with ~prefix s is true if and only if s starts with prefix.

since 4.13

val ends_with : suffix:string -> string -> bool

ends_with ~suffix s is true if and only if s ends with suffix.

since 4.13

val contains_from : string -> int -> char -> bool

contains_from s start c is true if and only if c appears in s after position start.

raises Invalid_argument
if start is not a valid position in s.

val rcontains_from : string -> int -> char -> bool

rcontains_from s stop c is true if and only if c appears in s before position stop+1.

raises Invalid_argument
if stop < 0 or stop+1 is not a valid position in s.

val contains : string -> char -> bool

contains s c is String.contains_from s 0 c.

Extracting substrings

val sub : string -> pos:int -> len:int -> string

sub s ~pos ~len is a string of length len, containing the substring of s that starts at position pos and has length len.

raises Invalid_argument
if pos and len do not designate a valid substring of s.

Transforming

val map : f:(char -> char) -> string -> string

map f s is the string resulting from applying f to all the characters of s in increasing order.

since 4.00

val mapi : f:(int -> char -> char) -> string -> string

mapi ~f s is like map but the index of the character is also passed to f.

since 4.02

val fold_left : f:('acc -> char -> 'acc) -> init:'acc -> string -> 'acc

fold_left f x s computes f (... (f (f x s.[0]) s.[1]) ...) s.[n-1], where n is the length of the string s.

since 4.13

val fold_right : f:(char -> 'acc -> 'acc) -> string -> init:'acc -> 'acc

fold_right f s x computes f s.[0] (f s.[1] ( ... (f s.[n-1] x) ...)), where n is the length of the string s.

since 4.13

val trim : string -> string

trim s is s without leading and trailing whitespace. Whitespace characters are: ' ', '\x0C' (form feed), '\n', '\r', and '\t'.

since 4.00

val escaped : string -> string

escaped s is s with special characters represented by escape sequences, following the lexical conventions of OCaml.

All characters outside the US-ASCII printable range [0x20;0x7E] are escaped, as well as backslash (0x2F) and double-quote (0x22).

The function Scanf.unescaped is a left inverse of escaped, i.e. Scanf.unescaped (escaped s) = s for any string s (unless escaped s fails).

raises Invalid_argument
if the result is longer than Sys.max_string_length bytes.

val uppercase_ascii : string -> string

uppercase_ascii s is s with all lowercase letters translated to uppercase, using the US-ASCII character set.

since 4.05

Traversing

val iter : f:(char -> unit) -> string -> unit

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.[length s - 1]; ().

val iteri : f:(int -> char -> unit) -> string -> unit

iteri is like iter, but the function is also given the corresponding character index.

since 4.00

Searching

val index_from : string -> int -> char -> int

index_from s i c is the index of the first occurrence of c in s after position i.

raises Not_found
if c does not occur in s after position i.

raises Invalid_argument
if i is not a valid position in s.

val rindex_from : string -> int -> char -> int

rindex_from s i c is the index of the last occurrence of c in s before position i+1.

raises Not_found
if c does not occur in s before position i+1.

raises Invalid_argument
if i+1 is not a valid position in s.

val index : string -> char -> int

index s c is String.index_from s 0 c.

val rindex : string -> char -> int

rindex s c is String.rindex_from s (length s - 1) c.

Strings and Sequences

val to_seq : t -> char Seq.t

to_seq s is a sequence made of the string's characters in increasing order. In "unsafe-string" mode, modifications of the string during iteration will be reflected in the sequence.

since 4.07

val to_seqi : t -> (int * char) Seq.t

to_seqi s is like to_seq but also tuples the corresponding index.

since 4.07

val of_seq : char Seq.t -> t

of_seq s is a string made of the sequence's characters.

since 4.07

UTF decoding and validations

since 4.14

UTF-8

val get_utf_8_uchar : t -> int -> Uchar.utf_decode

get_utf_8_uchar b i decodes an UTF-8 character at index i in b.

val is_valid_utf_8 : t -> bool

is_valid_utf_8 b is true if and only if b contains valid UTF-8 data.

UTF-16BE

val get_utf_16be_uchar : t -> int -> Uchar.utf_decode

get_utf_16be_uchar b i decodes an UTF-16BE character at index i in b.

val is_valid_utf_16be : t -> bool

is_valid_utf_16be b is true if and only if b contains valid UTF-16BE data.

UTF-16LE

val get_utf_16le_uchar : t -> int -> Uchar.utf_decode

get_utf_16le_uchar b i decodes an UTF-16LE character at index i in b.

val is_valid_utf_16le : t -> bool

is_valid_utf_16le b is true if and only if b contains valid UTF-16LE data.

Binary decoding of integers

The functions in this section binary decode integers from strings.

All following functions raise Invalid_argument if the characters needed at index i to decode the integer are not available.

Little-endian (resp. big-endian) encoding means that least (resp. most) significant bytes are stored first. Big-endian is also known as network byte order. Native-endian encoding is either little-endian or big-endian depending on Sys.big_endian.

32-bit and 64-bit integers are represented by the int32 and int64 types, which can be interpreted either as signed or unsigned numbers.

8-bit and 16-bit integers are represented by the int type, which has more bits than the binary encoding. These extra bits are sign-extended (or zero-extended) for functions which decode 8-bit or 16-bit integers and represented them with int values.

val get_uint8 : string -> int -> int

get_uint8 b i is b's unsigned 8-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val get_int8 : string -> int -> int

get_int8 b i is b's signed 8-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val get_uint16_ne : string -> int -> int

get_uint16_ne b i is b's native-endian unsigned 16-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val get_uint16_be : string -> int -> int

get_uint16_be b i is b's big-endian unsigned 16-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val get_uint16_le : string -> int -> int

get_uint16_le b i is b's little-endian unsigned 16-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val get_int16_ne : string -> int -> int

get_int16_ne b i is b's native-endian signed 16-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val get_int16_be : string -> int -> int

get_int16_be b i is b's big-endian signed 16-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val get_int16_le : string -> int -> int

get_int16_le b i is b's little-endian signed 16-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val get_int32_ne : string -> int -> int32

get_int32_ne b i is b's native-endian 32-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val hash : t -> int

An unseeded hash function for strings, with the same output value as Hashtbl.hash. This function allows this module to be passed as argument to the functor Hashtbl.Make.

since 5.0

val seeded_hash : int -> t -> int

A seeded hash function for strings, with the same output value as Hashtbl.seeded_hash. This function allows this module to be passed as argument to the functor Hashtbl.MakeSeeded.

since 5.0

val get_int32_be : string -> int -> int32

get_int32_be b i is b's big-endian 32-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val get_int32_le : string -> int -> int32

get_int32_le b i is b's little-endian 32-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val get_int64_ne : string -> int -> int64

get_int64_ne b i is b's native-endian 64-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val get_int64_be : string -> int -> int64

get_int64_be b i is b's big-endian 64-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val get_int64_le : string -> int -> int64

get_int64_le b i is b's little-endian 64-bit integer starting at character index i.

since 4.13

val is_empty : t -> bool

val prefix : string -> int -> string

val suffix : string -> int -> string

val drop_prefix : string -> int -> string

val drop_suffix : string -> int -> string

val is_prefix : string -> prefix:string -> bool

val is_suffix : string -> suffix:string -> bool

val exists : string -> f:(char -> bool) -> bool

val for_all : string -> f:(char -> bool) -> bool

val index_opt : string -> char -> int option

val rindex_opt : string -> char -> int option

val index_from_opt : string -> int -> char -> int option

val rindex_from_opt : string -> int -> char -> int option

val lsplit2 : string -> on:char -> (string * string) option

val capitalize_ascii : string -> string

val lowercase_ascii : string -> string

val uncapitalize_ascii : string -> string

val split_on_char : string -> sep:char -> string list

include Comparisons with type t := string

val compare : string -> string -> int

val equal : string -> string -> bool

val (=) : string -> string -> bool

val (<) : string -> string -> bool

val (>) : string -> string -> bool

val (<>) : string -> string -> bool

val (<=) : string -> string -> bool

val (>=) : string -> string -> bool

val min : string -> string -> string

val max : string -> string -> string

module Map : sig ... end

module Set : sig ... end