Mikmatch provides enhanced pattern matching with regexps for ocaml.

the goal of mikmatch is to make text-oriented programs even easier to write, read and run without losing the unique and powerful features of ocaml. mikmatch provides a concise and highly readable syntax for regular expressions, and integrates it into the syntax of ocaml thanks to camlp4.

the implementation of mikmatch consists essentially of:
* a library which is loaded by the ocaml preprocessor (camlp4) and
defines sophisticated "macros", i.e. the modified syntax;
* a traditional library (runtime) which is required by the programs that
use the mikmatch syntax;
* a dedicated 'mikmatch' command which can be used as a replacement for
'ocaml' in scripts or as an interactive toplevel. it performs automatically
these steps: preprocessing, compilation and execution.
this package contains the shared runtime libraries.