[Haskell-beginners] Getting a specified number of lines from stdin

[Nicolaas du Preez]

Good day All,

Why does

    liftM (take 5) $ sequence $ repeat getLine

not stop at reading only 5 lines from stdin but keeps on reading more?

What I’m really trying to achieve is to get input from the user until
an empty line is read with the code below.  But this doesn’t work 
as I expected, similar to the above.

    liftM (takeWhile (/= "")) $ sequence $ repeat getLine


Regards,
Nicolaas du Preez
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