[Haskell-cafe] How do I use ByteString?

[Gregory Crosswhite]

Look in Data.ByteString.Char8

Cheers,
Greg

On Apr 5, 2010, at 6:27 PM, Günther Schmidt wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've never found an easy way to deal with ByteStrings.
> 
> I'm using the RSA library and it en- and decodes Data.ByteString.Lazy.ByteString.
> 
> I initially start with Strings, ie. [Char], but there is no function to convert the 2 back and forth. There is however a function which takes [Word8] to BytesString and back.
> 
> It all wouldn't be so confusing if there weren't several versions of ByteString in several modules to choose from. And a number of libraries requiring different types of ByteString.
> 
> I am sure the designers of the bytestring package had good reason for this design, is there also a webpage which explains which one to use and under what circumstances?
> 
> Günther
> 
> 
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