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

[Don Stewart]

I don't think that's right - Simon's buffer class rewrite should have made
this possible, I think.

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/4.2.0.1/doc/html/GHC-IO-BufferedIO.html
On Feb 27, 2013 10:52 PM, "Gregory Collins" <greg at gregorycollins.net> wrote:

> 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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