On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Felipe Lessa wrote:
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bjorn Buckwalter
bjorn.buckwal...@gmail.com wrote:
(For my current needs the formats accepted by read are sufficient,
but I want reasonable error handling (Maybe or Either) instead of an
exception on bad inputs.)
Why
Bjorn Buckwalter bjorn.buckwal...@gmail.com wrote:
What is your preferred method of parsing floating point numbers (from
String to Float/Double)? Parsec it seems only does positive floats out
of the box and PolyParse requires the float to be on scientific form
(exponential).
Thanks for the
Although maybeRead was proposed, I cannot find it:
here's a replacement...
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/safe/0.2/doc/html/Safe.html#v%3AreadMay
Greetings,
Daniel
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Hi all,
What is your preferred method of parsing floating point numbers (from
String to Float/Double)? Parsec it seems only does positive floats out
of the box and PolyParse requires the float to be on scientific form
(exponential). While I've worked around these shortcomings in the past
I feel
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 19:34 -0500, Bjorn Buckwalter wrote:
Hi all,
What is your preferred method of parsing floating point numbers (from
String to Float/Double)? Parsec it seems only does positive floats out
of the box and PolyParse requires the float to be on scientific form
(exponential).
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bjorn Buckwalter
bjorn.buckwal...@gmail.com wrote:
(For my current needs the formats accepted by read are sufficient,
but I want reasonable error handling (Maybe or Either) instead of an
exception on bad inputs.)
Why not
readM :: (Monad m, Read a) = String - m
If you're working with ByteStrings,
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring-lexing
might help.
Cheers,
Dan
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Bjorn Buckwalter
bjorn.buckwal...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
What is your preferred method of parsing floating point numbers
