On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:10:03PM -0400, Juancarlo A?ez wrote:
> 
> Why aren't there functions in the standard library to convert strings to
> lists of characters and back?

As others have said, these functions are not in the standard library.
However, useful functions like these[1] are available in Extlib, which
you can find here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocaml-lib/

and is also available as a binary package for various platforms such
as Debian.

It contains important functions such as String.map,
String.replace_chars, String.slice, String.starts_with,
String.ends_with, and many more.

Rich.

[1] Although embarrassingly, it appears, not these exact functions,
which is why I've CC'd to ocaml-lib-devel list.  To ocaml-lib-devel:
we should provide implementations of
http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/FAQ_EXPERT-eng.html#strings

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