[Haskell-cafe] Suggestions for a hReadUntilStr implementation

[Matt Revelle]

Hey there,

A few weeks back I was thinking of writing a Haskell program that
automated a telnet session.  One function that could be useful is a
hReadUntilStr - that is, a function that takes a Handle as an input
source, a String to match, and a "Num a"  as the number of seconds to
wait before returning a (String, Bool) where the String is all the
text read from the Handle until either matching or timing out and the
Bool is true if the input String was matched.

Something like:

hReadUntilStr :: (Num a) => Handle -> String -> a -> IO (String, Bool)

Is this the wrong way to think about the problem?  If so, how should
it be handled?  If not, any ideas on the implementation?

Any advice is appreciated.

Cheers,
Matt