Input routines

val gzip_open_file : string -> IO.input

load a file in gzip format

  • returns

    ExtLib.IO.input channel

val bzip_open_file : string -> IO.input

load a file in bzip format

  • returns

    ExtLib.IO.input channel

val std_open_file : string -> IO.input

load a non compressed file

  • returns

    ExtLib.IO.input channel

exception File_empty
val open_file : string -> IO.input

load a file either in gzip, bzip or not compressed format

  • returns

    ExtLib.IO.input channel. Raise File_empty if the file is empty or fail if the file does not exist

val open_ch : in_channel -> IO.input
val close_ch : IO.input -> unit
val parse_uri : string -> Url.filetypes * (string option * string option * string option * string option * string) * string option

parse a uri. i.e. : deb://path/to/file rpm://path/to/file cudf://path/to/file

  • returns

    a tuple representing the uri

val guess_format : string list list -> Url.filetypes

guess the input format from a list of list of uris and check * if the list is omogenueous w.r.t the guessed format. Fails otherwise