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| From: | Dave Benjamin <dave@r...> |
| Subject: | OCaml PLEAC reaches 70% |
Hello, The PLEAC project aims to translate the source code examples of the Perl Cookbook to many programming languages. I have been working steadily for the past two years toward completing the OCaml translation. As of today, it is 70.71% complete, in between Ruby (64.43%) and Python (85.43%). http://pleac.sourceforge.net/ http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ocaml/index.html Much of my recent work has been on the file I/O chapters, which cover the topics of reading and writing to files using Pervasives and the Unix module. The file access chapter covers argument parsing, file locking, buffering and non-blocking I/O: http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ocaml/fileaccess.html The file contents chapter contains some helpful examples of working with Streams and Buffers, line-indexing of large files, and manipulation of binary data including an example of using Richard Jones' Bitmatch library to parse and "tail" Linux's binary "utmp" database of login events: http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ocaml/filecontents.html I have updated the PDF version as well, if you prefer to read PLEAC in an offline format. You can download it here: http://ramenlabs.com/pleac-pdf/pleac_ocaml.pdf As always, feedback, corrections, and contributions are more than welcome, and I will do my best to make suggested improvements. I think that, despite being somewhat Perl-centric and in need of more explanation, the OCaml PLEAC has already become a valuable resource. I refer to it frequently myself. Hopefully some day there will be a real OCaml Cookbook. In the meantime, there are a lot of practical code snippets that can save a few trips to the manual / interface files. I hope you find it useful as well. Thanks, Dave