Does OCaml have String.split function like Python?

Question

I am using this to split strings:

 let split = Str.split (Str.regexp_string \" \") in
   let tokens = split instr in
 ....

But the problem

Answer 1

Using Jane Street's Core library, you can do:

let python_split x =
  String.split_on_chars ~on:[ ' ' ; '\t' ; '\n' ; '\r' ] x
  |> List.filter ~f:(fun x -> x <> "")
;;