Problems with 'readFile'

[andrew cooke]

not sure about the numbers, but this sounds like the old windows
ms-dos mess.  for backwards compatability with dos, windows won't read
text files past a certain character (which might be Ctrl-Z).  most
languages let you specify that a file should be opened for binary
rather than text reading (which has no effect in unix, but is
necessary to avoid this problem on win32).  haskell doesn't (afaik)
support binary io in the standard (although ghc has appropriate
extensions), but maybe there's some parameter you can specify when
opening the file?

andrew

Niels Reyngoud <nreijngo@cs.uu.nl> writes:
> We are two students from the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands)
> working on a project in Haskell. During work on the project, we
> encountered a problem with the 'readFile' IO Monad.  readFile stops
> reading a file when it encounters ASCII character 26, as the following
> piece of coding shows. We've tested this with both the Hugs
> interpreter and the GHC compiler, but both encounter the same
> problem. Are there any known solutions for this?

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