some work on making the compiler command line cleaner,

[helm.git] / components / extlib / hExtlib.ml

diff --git a/components/extlib/hExtlib.ml b/components/extlib/hExtlib.ml
index 2fba7f651497a532af8db1445cdc12d25dcea302..53d8c74e878b4f511877116160a4a74661a29a29 100644 (file)
--- a/components/extlib/hExtlib.ml
+++ b/components/extlib/hExtlib.ml
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ let normalize_path s =
 
 let find_in paths path =
    let rec aux = function
-   | [] -> raise (Failure "not found")
+   | [] -> raise (Failure "find_in")
    | p :: tl ->
       let path = normalize_path (p ^ "/" ^ path) in
        try
@@ -450,7 +450,30 @@ let find_in paths path =
      aux paths
    with Unix.Unix_error _ | Failure _ -> 
      raise 
-       (Failure ("File " ^ path ^ " not found (or not readable) in: " ^
-         String.concat ":" paths))
+       (Failure "find_in")
+;;
+
+let is_prefix_of_aux d1 d2 = 
+  let len1 = String.length d1 in
+  let len2 = String.length d2 in
+  if len2 < len1 then 
+    false, len1, len2
+  else
+    let pref = String.sub d2 0 len1 in
+    pref = d1 && (len1 = len2 || d1.[len1-1] = '/' || d2.[len1] = '/'), len1, len2
+
+let is_prefix_of d1 d2 =
+  let b,_,_ = is_prefix_of_aux d1 d2 in b
+;;
+
+let chop_prefix prefix s =
+  let b,lp,ls = is_prefix_of_aux prefix s in
+  if b then
+    String.sub s lp (ls - lp)
+  else 
+    s
+;;
+
+let touch s =
+  try close_out(open_out s) with Sys_error _ -> ()
 ;;
-