On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:34:01 +0200, Adrien wrote:
> 
> I was debugguing a regular-expression and noticed that \" in a string
> remained as-is and this somehow seems linked to my quotation problem :
>   # let a="\"";;
>   val a : string = "\""
> 
>   # let a="\034";;
>   val a : string = "\""
> 
> Is it expected behaviour? :o

Yes.  Your misunderstanding seems to come from the fact that it is
displayed as \" because it is quoted, this the usual quoting rules
apply.  But

# "\"".[0];;
- : char = '"'

ChriS