[Haskell-cafe] lazy readFile

[David Sabel]

Hi!

>I'm also interested, how to get this example working:
>
>http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2001-November/008336.html
>
>This seems to be an old discussion:
>
>http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2001-April/000358.html
>
>Was a strictReadFile implemented in the meantime? 
>  
>
Here's my implementation of strictReadFile:

import System.IO

strictReadFile path = do
                                  handle <- openFile path ReadMode
                                  strictReadFromHandle handle

strictReadFromHandle handle =
   do
    eof <- hIsEOF handle
    if eof then
     do
       hClose handle
       return []
     else
      do
      c <- hGetChar handle
      y <- strictReadFromHandle handle
      return (c:y)


Cheers,
  David