On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Alain Frisch wrote:

> Richard Jones wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 05:34:38PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
>> 
>>> Currently, you cannot match [|1; ...|] in OCaml.
>> 
>> 
>> Yes!  Or, "prefix" ^ str.
>
> This seems like a good place to insert a shameless plug. Thank you. In 
> OCamlDuce (the extension of OCaml with XML types and patterns), you can 
> indeed match on string prefixes:
[...]

This is also something that is relatively easy with Micmatch:

$ micmatch
         Objective Caml version 3.08.3

         Camlp4 Parsing version 3.08.3

# let / "prefix" (_* as str) / = "prefixabcd";;
val str : string = "abcd"



Martin

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