[Haskell-cafe] Attoparsec.ByteString.Char8 or Attoparsec.ByteString for diff output?

[Pedro B.]

Thanks Li-yao . As I mentioned in my answer to Viktor, I am now using 
the ByteString functions except when I want to parse Char8's, for 
example to parse an 'a' with Data.Attoparsec.ByteString.Char8.char 'a'.

Regards,

Pedro Borges

El 17/2/2023 a las 3:12 p. m., Li-yao Xia escribió:
> You should probably use `Data.Attoparsec.ByteString`. Both let you do 
> the same thing, but `Char8` just uses the wrong type (Chars 
> ['\0'..'\255'] to represent bytes, i.e. Word8).
> 
> On 2023-02-17 5:32 PM, Pedro B. wrote:
>> Dear Listers,
>>
>> I am developing a program to parse dif output taken from stdin (as in 
>> diff file1 file2 | myApp) or from a file. I am reading  the input as 
>> ByteString in either case and I am parsing it Attoparsec. My question 
>> is, Should I use Data.Attoparsec.ByteString.Char8  or 
>> Data.Attoparsec.ByteString?
>>
>> So far, I've been  using Data.Attoparsec.ByteString.Char8  and it 
>> works for my sample files, which are in utf8 or, latin1, or the 
>> default Windows encoding.
>>
>> What do you suggest?
>>
>> Note: I sent this question previously to the beginners list, but 
>> someone suggested to me privately to send it to this  list.
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pedro Borges
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