String manipulation.

[Hal Daume III]

You should have a look at the Read class.  A member a of the Read class
has a function read :: String -> a.

so, for example, you can say:

  (read "5.0") :: Double

to read this as a double.  You could also read it as an integer or
something.

If you have a list of strings that you want to convert to a list of
integers, you could do:

  map (\x -> (read x)::Double) [list of strings]

Hope that helps.

 - Hal

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Hal Daume III

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On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, DK wrote:

> Hello. First of all I am a beginner in Haskell, and I must confess I do not yet fully understand it. I need to write a program in Haskell, though, and I am having some difficulties... 
> 
> What I would like to ask, is how can I take a string from a list, and manipulate it, in order to convert it to an integer. Any help would be very appreciated.
> 
> Thank you very much,
>     Dimitris
>