A String is a list of characters. String constants in Haskell are values of type String.

Class for string-like datastructures; used by the overloaded string extension (-XOverloadedStrings in GHC).

lines breaks a string up into a list of strings at newline characters. The resulting strings do not contain newlines.

Note that after splitting the string at newline characters, the last part of the string is considered a line even if it doesn't end with a newline. For example,

lines "" == []
lines "\n" == [""]
lines "one" == ["one"]
lines "one\n" == ["one"]
lines "one\n\n" == ["one",""]
lines "one\ntwo" == ["one","two"]
lines "one\ntwo\n" == ["one","two"]

Thus lines s contains at least as many elements as newlines in s.

words breaks a string up into a list of words, which were delimited by white space.

unlines is an inverse operation to lines. It joins lines, after appending a terminating newline to each.

unwords is an inverse operation to words. It joins words with separating spaces.