[Haskell-beginners] string -> bytestring

[Iustin Pop]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 01:53:44AM -0900, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hi. I'm trying to use pcre-light in a small text-manip app. However, the
> module seems to want the incoming text data as a ByteString, whereas I
> in my child-like naivety am taking the data from stdin as Strings. After
> searching around, I tried using the fromString function from
> Data.ByteString.UTF8 to convert from String to ByteString; but all I get is:
> 
> code:
> --------
> Couldn't match expected type `ByteString'
> with actual type `bytestring-0.9.2.1:Data.ByteString.Internal.ByteString'
> --------
> 
> So I'm not sure what to do.

Is it a mismatch between strict and lazy bytestrings?

iustin