[Haskell-cafe] Input redirection in WinGHCi

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 28 July 2011 04:56, Paul Reiners <paul.reiners at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know I can do the following from a command prompt:
>
> $ runghc WC < quux.txt
>
> How do I do this in WinGHCi? I know I have to first load the file like this:
>
> Prelude> :load WC
>
> But then what? This doesn't work:
>
> *Main> WC < quux.txt
>
>
> <interactive>:1:1: Not in scope: data constructor `WC'
>
>
> <interactive>:1:6: Not in scope: `quux'
>
>
> <interactive>:1:11: Not in scope: `txt'

Probably something like:

*Main> quux <- readFile "quux.txt"
*Main> :main quux

i.e. you can't do file redirection inside ghci

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