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OCaml Tips: Converting a String to a List of Characters

While playing with OCaml I was surprised to learn there’s no built-in function the convert a string to a list of its characters. Admittedly, that’s not something you need very often, but it does come handy from time to time. There are many ways to implement such a function ourselves and the one I like the most makes use of List.init:

char character characters chars explode_string hello implode_char_list init inverse operation

24 Oct 2022

Bozhidar Batsov

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