]> ocamlyacc - you can get most of it for free out of parsing/parser.mly in the OCaml sources... the section on type expressions starts at line 1144 for OCaml 3.11.0. David > -----Original Message----- > From: caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr [mailto:caml-list- > bounces@yquem.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Paolo Donadeo > Sent: 06 January 2009 14:04 > To: OCaml mailing list > Subject: [Caml-list] Parsing simple type expressions > > For a serializer I'm writing I need to parse simple OCaml type > expressions composed by OCaml basic types, tuples, options and lists. > Given a string like "(int * string option) list" and this type: > > type types = > | Int > | String > | Float > | Char > | Bool > | Option of types > | List of types > | Tuple of types list > > the function I need should return something like List (Tuple ([Int; > Option(String)])) > > Before starting with low level sscanf functions I looked at the Genlex > module, but it wasn't so inspiring. Then I tried with Camlp4 but the > documentation doesn't really shine :-) > > So is there a simple way to write this function using some standard > module? > > TIA, > > > -- > Paolo > ~ > ~ > :wq > > _______________________________________________ > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: > http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs