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

Since OCaml 4.04.0 there is also String.split_on_char, which you can combine with List.filter to remove empty strings:

# "pop     esi"
  |> String.split_on_char ' '
  |> List.filter (fun s -> s <> "");;
- : string list = ["pop"; "esi"]

No external libraries required.