[Haskell-cafe] String vs ByteString

Michael Snoyman michael at snoyman.com
Fri Aug 13 07:42:41 EDT 2010


Just import the ByteString module qualified. In other words:

import qualified Data.ByteString as S

or for lazy bytestrings:

import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L

Cheers,
Michael

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<mle+hs at mega-nerd.com<mle%2Bhs at mega-nerd.com>
> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm using Tagsoup to strip data out of some rather large XML files.
>
> Since the files are large I'm using ByteString, but that leads me
> to wonder what is the best way to handle clashes between Prelude
> functions like putStrLn and the ByteString versions?
>
> Anyone have any suggestions for doing this as neatly as possible?
>
> Erik
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