[Haskell-cafe] non lazy io

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi,

> I would like a non-lazy alternative to
>
> readFile
>
> is there such a thing in the libraries?

Not as far as I know, but you can achieve something similar by doing:

-- untested
readFile' file = do
   src <- readFile file
   return $ seq (length src) src

What is the particular reason you want a strict readFile for?

Thanks

Neil