Module type Substring_intf.S

module type S = sig .. end

type base 
the type of strings that type t is a substring of
type t 
val base : t -> base
The pos refers to the position in the base string, not any other substring that this substring was generated from.
val pos : t -> int
val length : t -> int
val create : ?pos:int -> ?len:int -> base -> t
create ?pos ?len base creates a substring of the base sequence of length len starting at position pos, i.e.

 base.[pos], base.[pos + 1], ... base.[pos + len - 1] 

It is required that:

It does not copy the characters.

Blit functions
for copying characters from a substring to and from both strings and substrings.
val blit_to_string : t -> dst:string -> dst_pos:int -> unit
val blit_to_bigstring : t -> dst:Bigstring.t -> dst_pos:int -> unit
val blit_from_string : t -> src:string -> src_pos:int -> len:int -> unit
val blit_from_bigstring : t -> src:Bigstring.t -> src_pos:int -> len:int -> unit

String concatenation

val concat : t list -> t
val concat_string : t list -> string
val concat_bigstring : t list -> Bigstring.t
val of_bigstring : Bigstring.t -> t
Conversion to substrings
. These may share memory with the thing from which they are copying.
val of_string : string -> t
val to_bigstring : t -> Bigstring.t
these two functions perform a copy
val to_string : t -> string

Prefixes and suffixes
The result of these functions may share data with their input.
val drop_prefix : t -> int -> t
val drop_suffix : t -> int -> t
val prefix : t -> int -> t
val suffix : t -> int -> t