[Haskell-cafe] readFile and closing a file

[Mitchell, Neil]

Hi Henning,

I tend to use openFile, hGetContents, hClose - your initial readFile
like call should be openFile/hGetContents, which gives you a lazy
stream, and on a parse error call hClose.

Thanks

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of 
> Henning Thielemann
> Sent: 17 September 2008 12:31 pm
> To: Haskell Cafe
> Subject: [Haskell-cafe] readFile and closing a file
> 
> 
> Say I acquire a text by readFile, feed it to a lazy parser 
> and the parser stops reading because of a parse error. After 
> the parser error I won't fetch more characters from the text 
> file, but readFile does not get to know that and cannot close 
> the file. Actually, when encountering a parser error I could 
> read the remaining characters from the file in order to let 
> readFile close the file eventually, but this sounds rather 
> inefficient. 
> So, what is the right way to go, or do I have to stay away 
> from readFile (and maybe unsafeInterleaveIO at all)?
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