[Haskell-beginners] Reading a list of null-terminated filenames from stdin?

[Dan Stromberg]

First off, thanks for your response.

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Karl Voelker <karl at karlv.net> wrote:

> > On Oct 10, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Dan Stromberg <strombrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If I want to read a list of filenames, each terminated with a nul byte,
> from stdin (kind of like xargs -0), what's the best way to do that in
> Haskell?  Or am I swimming against the current to do anything but
> newline-termination?
>
> It looks like all the stdin-specific functions are line-oriented, but you
> can use "Data.ByteString.hGet stdin”.
>
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring-0.10.6.0/docs/Data-ByteString.html#g:29


I'm very much a Haskell newb, but does Data.ByteString.hGet stdin read a
fixed (maximum) number of bytes, rather than a nul terminated sequence of
bytes?

> Google's top hit is:
> >
> https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.6.1/docs/html/libraries/bytestring-0.10.0.0/Data-ByteString.html
> > ...but I don't see anything about nul termination there.  I checked the
> top ~5 hits, and didn't find much.
>
> I don’t think it matters in this case, but you should be aware that Google
> does not always find the most recent results when it comes to Hackage
> packages. (See my link above.
>

I'll keep that in mind.

Thanks.

-- 
Dan Stromberg
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