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Text.Read Portability non-portable (uses Text.ParserCombinators.ReadP) Stability provisional Maintainer libraries@haskell.org

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The Read class Haskell 98 functions New parsing functions

Description

The Text.Read library is the canonical library to import for Read-class facilities. For GHC only, it offers an extended and much improved Read class, which constitutes a proposed alternative to the Haskell 98 Read. In particular, writing parsers is easier, and the parsers are much more efficient.

Synopsis

class Read a where readsPrec :: Int -> ReadS a readList :: ReadS [a] readPrec :: ReadPrec a readListPrec :: ReadPrec [a] type ReadS a = String -> [(a, String)] reads :: (Read a) => ReadS a read :: (Read a) => String -> a readParen :: Bool -> ReadS a -> ReadS a lex :: ReadS String module Text.ParserCombinators.ReadPrec data Lexeme = Char Char | String String | Punc String | Ident String | Symbol String | Int Integer | Rat Rational | EOF lexP :: ReadPrec Lexeme readListDefault :: (Read a) => ReadS [a] readListPrecDefault :: (Read a) => ReadPrec [a]

The Read class

class Read a where

Methods readsPrec :: Int -> ReadS a readList :: ReadS [a] readPrec :: ReadPrec a Proposed replacement for readsPrec using new-style parsers (GHC only). readListPrec :: ReadPrec [a] Proposed replacement for readList using new-style parsers (GHC only). Instances (RealFloat a, Read a) => Read (Complex a) Read CChar Read CSChar Read CUChar Read CShort Read CUShort Read CInt Read CUInt Read CLong Read CULong Read CLLong Read CULLong Read CFloat Read CDouble Read CLDouble Read CPtrdiff Read CSize Read CWchar Read CSigAtomic Read CClock Read CTime Read IOModeEx Read SeekMode Read BufferMode Read ExitCode Read IOMode Read Int8 Read Int16 Read Int32 Read Int64 Read Char Read Bool Read Ordering (Read a) => Read (Maybe a) (Read a, Read b) => Read (Either a b) (Read a) => Read [a] (Ix a, Read a, Read b) => Read (Array a b) Read Lexeme Read Int Read Integer Read Float Read Double (Integral a, Read a) => Read (Ratio a) Read () (Read a, Read b) => Read (a, b) (Read a, Read b, Read c) => Read (a, b, c) (Read a, Read b, Read c, Read d) => Read (a, b, c, d) (Read a, Read b, Read c, Read d, Read e) => Read (a, b, c, d, e) Read Word Read Word8 Read Word16 Read Word32 Read Word64 Read Permissions Read CDev Read CIno Read CMode Read COff Read CPid Read CSsize Read CGid Read CNlink Read CUid Read CCc Read CSpeed Read CTcflag Read CRLim Read Fd Read StdGen Read Month Read Day Read CalendarTime Read TimeDiff

type ReadS a = String -> [(a, String)]

A parser for a type a, represented as a function that takes a String and returns a list of possible parses (a,String) pairs.

Haskell 98 functions

reads :: (Read a) => ReadS a

read :: (Read a) => String -> a

readParen :: Bool -> ReadS a -> ReadS a

lex :: ReadS String

New parsing functions

module Text.ParserCombinators.ReadPrec

data Lexeme

Constructors Char Char String String Punc String Ident String Symbol String Int Integer Rat Rational EOF Instances Read Lexeme Eq Lexeme Show Lexeme

lexP :: ReadPrec Lexeme

Parse a single lexeme

readListDefault :: (Read a) => ReadS [a]

Use this to define the readList method, if you don't want a special case (GHC only; for other systems the default suffices).

readListPrecDefault :: (Read a) => ReadPrec [a]

Use this to define the readListPrec method, if you don't want a special case (GHC only).

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