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This is meant to be a reusable parser for files where indentation matters. It only cares about space-based indentation. This implementation should probably be modified to support input other than files or in_channels. It originates from this thread on caml-list, where more information is given: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2009/06/628f99a8b518acc3fc9f3649b1901167.en.html… Continue

This is an example of using ocamllex for parsing structured text using ocamllex entirely. The language (Genbank format) is not yacc-friendly because tokens can't be extracted in a single pass independently from grammar rules. Input data:

LOCUS       AB000684                 275 bp    DNA     linear   ENV 29-JUL-2005DEFINITION  Uncultured bacterium gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, clone: 2
            of cluster I.
ACCESSION   AB000684
VERSION     AB000684.1  GI:1817504
KEYWORD

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It seems like the second OCaml meeting will take place in Grenoble. The first meeting was in Paris and had a lot of very interesting people. I'll go to Grenoble without hesitation, and I'm not the kind who likes meetings. Continue

Working on an Easy_format module - "Indentation made easy". This is a functional layer on top of the standard Format module. Code with examples is available at OCamlForge. Continue

Hey, use <pre> for code snippets:

print_endline "Hello, world."

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