[Haskell] A opportunity to lern (parsing huge binary file)

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Thu Mar 10 17:36:50 CET 2011


ppk:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:36:27AM -0500, Skeptic . wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> 
> > I finally have an opportunity to learn Haskell (I'm a day-to-day
> > Java programmer, but I'm also at ease with Scheme), parsing a huge
> > (i.e. up to 50 go) binary file. The encoding is very stable, but
> > it's not a flat struct array (i.e. it uses flags).   Different
> > outputs (i.e. text files) will be needed, some unknown at this
> > time.   Sounds to me a perfect "real-world" task to see what Haskell
> > can offer.
> > 
> 
>   Maybe you can try attoparsec. I have not tired it but will like to
> hear your experience
> 

attoparsec or Data.Binary 

-- Don



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