]> "Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr> writes: > Is there a way to do a shortest regular expression matching using Str ? > In Perl and many RE engines, this is done by using .*? but it does not > seems to work on Str. > > let s = "yayybyyb" in > let r = Str.regexp "a\(.*?\)b" in > Str.search_forward r s 0; > Str.matched_group 1 s; > > => "yybyy" instead of "yy" Why not to use Pcre module then? - Dmitry Bely ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners