Is it possible to build in a file in a haskell program??

[Alexandre Weffort Thenorio]

Thanks a lot guys. "Show" seems to have solved the problem. The only weird
thing is that created file is not exactly the same size (100 bytes bigger)
but hopefully that should not be a problem. Just would like to point that
openFile function from IO library did not write the right string
representation (Just small part of it) while openFileEx in IOExts library
did write the whole thing. Maybe it is a bug? As a last question I am
curious about a thing you guys typed a lot latelly, What does the $ sign
(Dollar) does??

Thanks again

Alex

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glynn Clements" <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
To: "Alexandre Weffort Thenorio" <alethenorio@home.se>
Cc: "Keith Wansbrough" <Keith.Wansbrough@cl.cam.ac.uk>;
<haskell@haskell.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: Is it possible to build in a file in a haskell program??



Alexandre Weffort Thenorio wrote:

> OK. Here is what happen. I wrote the small haskell program that write
> another haskell program containing a string representation of the bin
file.
>
> If use openFile function the string representation is not complete
(Doesn't
> write the whole bin file, bug maybe) but if I use openFileEx (IOExts
> Library, Lang Package) it writes the whole thing
>
> BUT both ways it still gives me a file with a binary string representation
> (Weird sings) like:
>
> module MyBinFile ( mybinfile ) where
> mybinfile :: String
> mybinfile = "
Ì   þs
$>Ì  
Ì  þ
VÌ 01o ¦·
?sfÌ{%z-æÇ
dæÇ
e_
> Æ
e\\\\ÃàQ'%Ñàz&òÆ
dÑày&çÖà{Ç
dÖà|Ç
ez-Æ
dçÆ
eç?
 00
> 0...."
>
> thus of course giving me a error in character literal in third line when
> trying to run the old main (That is gonna rewrite the bin file). Any
ideas??

Use "show", e.g.

hPutStrLn outFile $ "mybinfile = " ++ show theString

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>