[Haskell-cafe] How to determine if a FilePath is a directory name or regular file?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:

> I've been hoogling like bad to try to determine if a function like
> this exists.
> 
> getDirectoryContents returns sub-directories as well as file names. I
> want only the latter, so I'm looking for a suitable filter.

The first example in this chapter of Real World Haskell uses the
doesDirectoryExist function :

    http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/io-case-study-a-library-for-searching-the-filesystem.html

HTH,
Erik
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