[Haskell] Alex question

[robert dockins]

Which wrapper are you using?  I just recently did this for the monad 
wrapper.  It looks a little like this:

data Token
    = EOF
    | ....

alexEOF = return EOF

lexAll :: Alex [Token]
lexAll =
     do x <- alexMonadScan
        case x of
            EOF -> []
            _   -> lexAll >>= return . (:) x

lexString :: String -> [Token]
lexString str = runAlex str lexAll


The basic and posn wrappers have the "alexScanTokens" function which 
does essentially the same thing.


Just slap on hGetContents and show and you're done.


Creighton Hogg wrote:
> Hi,
> I've read through the documentation on Alex abit, but since 
> I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed I'm not really seeing 
> the obvious way to take the output file of Alex and make a 
> program that will print out the list of tokens scanned from 
> an input file.
> I had to do something like this this past week for a class, 
> but that was in Java so I wanted to try it in Haskell as 
> well but I'm stuck at the moment.
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