[Haskell-cafe] How to parsing files

[Sebastian Sylvan]

On 7/20/05, yin <yin at atom.sk> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to parse a file in this format:
>    float float float
>    float float float
> Each row has 3-columns of floating procision number divided by white
> space. The number of lines is undefined. I use (lines (readFile "..."))
> to read the file.
> 

Off the top of my head:

readVecs :: String -> IO [Vector3 GLfloat]
readVecs f =
    do str <- readFile f
         let mkVec [x,y,z] = Vector3 x y z
         return $ map (mkVec . read . words)  $ lines str

Of course this won't exactly fail gracefully if the file is corrupt or
anything like that...

/S

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