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26 (** {2 Optional values} *)
28 val map_option: ('a -> 'b) -> 'a option -> 'b option
29 val iter_option: ('a -> unit) -> 'a option -> unit
30 val unopt: 'a option -> 'a (** @raise Failure *)
34 val is_dir: string -> bool (** @return true if file is a directory *)
35 val is_regular: string -> bool (** @return true if file is a regular file *)
36 val mkdir: string -> unit (** create dir and parents. @raise Failure *)
37 val tilde_expand: string -> string (** bash-like (head) tilde expansion *)
38 val safe_remove: string -> unit (** removes a file if it exists *)
39 val safe_rmdir: string -> unit (** removes a dir if it exists and is empty *)
40 val is_dir_empty: string -> bool (** checks if the dir is empty *)
41 val rmdir_descend: string -> unit (** rmdir -p *)
43 (** find all _files_ whose name matches test under a filesystem root.
44 * Test is passed the filename path relative to the given filesystem root *)
45 val find: ?test:(string -> bool) -> string -> string list
49 val input_file: string -> string (** read all the contents of file to string *)
50 val input_all: in_channel -> string (** read all the contents of a channel *)
51 val output_file: filename:string -> text:string -> unit (** other way round *)
53 (** {2 Exception handling} *)
55 (** @param finalizer finalization function (execution both in case of success
56 * and in case of raised exception
57 * @param f function to be invoked
58 * @param arg argument to be passed to function *)
59 val finally: (unit -> unit) -> ('a -> 'b) -> 'a -> 'b
61 (** {2 Char processing} *)
63 val is_alpha: char -> bool
64 val is_blank: char -> bool
65 val is_digit: char -> bool
66 val is_alphanum: char -> bool (** is_alpha || is_digit *)
68 (** {2 String processing} *)
70 val split: ?sep:char -> string -> string list (** @param sep defaults to ' ' *)
71 val trim_blanks: string -> string (** strip heading and trailing blanks *)
73 (** {2 List processing} *)
76 ?eq:('a->'a->bool) -> 'a list -> 'a list (** uniq unix filter on lists *)
77 val filter_map: ('a -> 'b option) -> 'a list -> 'b list (** filter + map *)
78 val list_rev_map_filter: ('a -> 'b option) -> 'a list -> 'b list
79 val list_concat: ?sep:'a list -> 'a list list -> 'a list (**String.concat-like*)
80 val list_findopt: ('a -> 'b option) -> 'a list -> 'b option
81 val flatten_map: ('a -> 'b list) -> 'a list -> 'b list
82 val list_last: 'a list -> 'a
85 * @returns two list, the first contains at least n elements, the second the
87 * @raise Failure when List.length l < n *)
88 val split_nth: int -> 'a list -> 'a list * 'a list
90 (** {2 Debugging & Profiling} *)
92 type profiler = { profile : 'a 'b. ('a -> 'b) -> 'a -> 'b }
94 (** @return a profiling function; [s] is used for labelling the total time at
95 * the end of the execution *)
96 val profile : ?enable:bool -> string -> profiler
97 val set_profiling_printings : (string -> bool) -> unit
99 (** {2 Localized exceptions } *)
101 exception Localized of Token.flocation * exn
103 val loc_of_floc: Token.flocation -> int * int
104 val floc_of_loc: int * int -> Token.flocation
106 val dummy_floc: Lexing.position * Lexing.position
108 val raise_localized_exception: offset:int -> Token.flocation -> exn -> 'a
110 (* size in KB (SLOW) *)
111 val estimate_size: 'a -> int