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Support for look-around in regular expressions #4872

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vicuna opened this issue Sep 22, 2009 · 1 comment
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Support for look-around in regular expressions #4872

vicuna opened this issue Sep 22, 2009 · 1 comment

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vicuna commented Sep 22, 2009

Original bug ID: 4872
Reporter: @elfring
Status: acknowledged (set by @damiendoligez on 2011-05-31T14:35:46Z)
Resolution: open
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Version: 3.11.1
Category: otherlibs

Bug description

The module Str provides some functionality for regular expressions.
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Str.html

Would you like to support improved matching capabilities like look-around (look-behind/ahead)?

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nojb commented Mar 15, 2019

The str library has many shortcomings (global state, clunky API, etc) and it is highly unlikely it will be developed further (in fact it will be split off the compiler distribution when it is feasible).

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