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(*                           Objective Caml                            *)
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(*            Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt         *)
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(*  Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et   *)
(*  en Automatique.  All rights reserved.  This file is distributed    *)
(*  under the terms of the Q Public License version 1.0.               *)
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(* $Id$ *)

type t =
    Lident of string
  | Ldot of t * string
  | Lapply of t * t

let rec flat accu = function
    Lident s -> s :: accu
  | Ldot(lid, s) -> flat (s :: accu) lid
  | Lapply(l1, l2) -> Misc.fatal_error "Longident.flat"

let flatten lid = flat [] lid

let rec split_at_dots s pos =
  try
    let dot = String.index_from s pos '.' in
    String.sub s pos (dot - pos) :: split_at_dots s (dot + 1)
  with Not_found ->
    [String.sub s pos (String.length s - pos)]

let parse s =
  match split_at_dots s 0 with
    [] -> Lident ""  (* should not happen, but don't put assert false
                        so as not to crash the toplevel (see Genprintval) *)
  | hd :: tl -> List.fold_left (fun p s -> Ldot(p, s)) (Lident hd) tl
