[Haskell-cafe] beginner question - file handling

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

do x <- readFile "test.txt"
     print (length (lines x))

That prints out the number of lines in a file, but once you have done
lines x, you can do anything you want to the lines

Thanks

Neil

On 3/5/06, Richard Gooding <rich_gooding at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can someone please point me at some code to read in the lines for a file - a working example ?
>
> I've have checked the tutorials on the wiki (some broken links) but couldn't find anything. - and my "The craft of functiional programming" doesn't have an example either !
>
> thanks
> Rich
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