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Learning OCaml: Regular Expressions

One of the things that bothered me initially in OCaml was the poor support for working in regular expressions in the standard library. Technically speaking, there’s no support for them at all!

04 Apr 2025

Bozhidar Batsov

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Ann: A new ppx for tyre and new version of ppx_regexp | Drup's thingies

Some times ago, I released Tyre, a library for Typed Regular Expressions that allows matching, printing and routing. While many people expressed interest, the syntax was (rightfully) considered too obtuse for practical usage. Thanks to Petter A. ‘paurkedal’ Urkedal, this should now be fixed!

21 Aug 2018

Gabriel Radanne

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Ann: Regenerate | Drup's thingies

I’m happy to announce the release of Regenerate, a library, tool and website to generate test cases for regular expression engines.

08 May 2018

Gabriel Radanne

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Ann: Pumping | Drup's thingies

I’m happy to announce the release of Pumping, a library to leverage the OCaml type system to recognize regular languages.

01 Apr 2017

Gabriel Radanne

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Ann: Typed regular expressions | Drup's thingies

I’m happy to announce the release of Tyre, a library for Typed Regular Expressions.

12 Aug 2016

Gabriel Radanne

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