[Haskell-beginners] Attoparsec.ByteString.Char8 or Attoparsec.ByteString for diff output?

[Pedro B.]

I send this question to the haskell-cafe list and I've got a couple of 
answers there.

Pedro Borges


El 17/2/2023 a las 12:04 p. m., Pedro B. escribió:
> Dear Listers,
> 
> I am developing a program to parse dif output taken from stdin (as in 
> diff file1 file2 | myApp) or from a file. I am reading  the input as 
> ByteString in either case and I am parsing it Attoparsec. My question 
> is, Should I use Data.Attoparsec.ByteString.Char8  or 
> Data.Attoparsec.ByteString?
> 
> So far, I've been  using Data.Attoparsec.ByteString.Char8  and it works 
> for my sample files, which are in utf8 or, latin1, or the default 
> Windows encoding.
> 
> What do you suggest?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pedro Borges