[Haskell-beginners] read

[Russ Abbott]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with the read function. I thought it took a string and
converted it into a value (if there is a conversion). But it doesn't seem to
work for me on GHCi

Prelude> read "123"
*** Exception: Prelude.read: no parse
Prelude> read (show 123)
*** Exception: Prelude.read: no parse


There must be something trivial that I'm missing.

Thanks.

*-- Russ Abbott*
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