Continuing the discussion from Feedback / Help Wanted: Upcoming OCaml.org Cookbook Feature: OK, let’s talk about an example that I came across recently: minttea/leaves/table.ml at b084ec7401c52167fae5087577133e52e3874899 · leostera/minttea · GitHub Here we want to render a table in the CLI and we want to pad and truncate the table content text to fit inside the column lengths. Eg suppose one of the columns is 30 characters long. So we need to calculate the length of the text that will go ...| OCaml
The split() method of String values takes a pattern and divides this string into an ordered list of substrings by searching for the pattern, puts these substrings into an array, and returns the array.| MDN Web Docs
I’ve recently published my parsing combinator library lexy. One of the things it does is issue a lexy::error if the input does not match the grammar. This error has a .position() which gives you the position where the error occurred. In order to keep the happy path fast, .position() is not something that is easy to use for end users: it is simply an iterator into the input range. This is no good to a human user who wants something like line and column number to easily locate the problematic...| www.foonathan.net
