[Haskell-cafe] How does one create an input handle bound to a string instead of a file?

[Gregory Collins]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:38 PM, John D. Ramsdell <ramsdell0 at gmail.com>wrote:

> How does one create a value of type System.IO.Handle for reading that
> takes its input from a string instead of a file?  I'm looking for the
> equivalent of java.io.StringReader in Java.  Thanks in advance.
>

You can't. There are several libraries that purport to provide better
interfaces for doing IO in Haskell, like conduit, pipes, enumerator, and my
own io-streams library (http://github.com/snapframework/io-streams, soon to
be released). You could try one of those.

G
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Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
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