I couldn't find the mkHandle function in the source linked to the specified Haddock generated documentation page.
If there is a consensus that others besides myself would like a function with the signature stringHandle :: String -> IO (Handle) I'd be happy to contribute code. I'd need help as I haven't ever contributed this kind of code. John On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Bob Ippolito <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't had time to make an example yet but it looks like if you go down > to GHC.IO.Handle.Internals there's a mkHandle function that takes a > BufferedIO and some other stuff and gives you an IO Handle. > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Gregory Collins <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hm, perhaps I stand corrected. Then how exactly do you make the bytestring >> Handle? >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Don Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I don't think that's right - Simon's buffer class rewrite should have >>> made this possible, I think. >>> >>> >>> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/4.2.0.1/doc/html/GHC-IO-BufferedIO.html >>> >>> On Feb 27, 2013 10:52 PM, "Gregory Collins" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:38 PM, John D. Ramsdell <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> How does one create a value of type System.IO.Handle for reading that >>>>> takes its input from a string instead of a file? I'm looking for the >>>>> equivalent of java.io.StringReader in Java. Thanks in advance. >>>> >>>> >>>> You can't. There are several libraries that purport to provide better >>>> interfaces for doing IO in Haskell, like conduit, pipes, enumerator, and my >>>> own io-streams library (http://github.com/snapframework/io-streams, soon to >>>> be released). You could try one of those. >>>> >>>> G >>>> -- >>>> Gregory Collins <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >>>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Gregory Collins <[email protected]> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
