[Libguestfs] [PATCH v2 00/18] Replace many more uses of the Str module with PCRE.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

v1 was here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-September/msg00135.html

This is a more complete evolution of the earlier patch.  It replaces
most important uses of Str with PCRE throughout the code.  It also
extends the bindings with some useful features like case-insensitive
regexps.

The main places I *didn't* touch are the generator (GObject uses Str
extensively); and common/mlstdutils which cannot use PCRE because it
cannot depend on C code.  But pretty much everything else has been
converted now.

	- - -

Same question as before:

> I wonder if there was a deep reason why we had this?
> 
>  let unix2dos s =
>    String.concat "\r\n" (Str.split_delim (Str.regexp_string "\n") s)
> 
> I replaced it with what I think should be (nearly) equivalent:
> 
>  let unix2dos s =
>    String.concat "\r\n" (String.nsplit "\n" s)

Rich.