On Saturday 21 June 2008, Don Stewart wrote:
> maybeRead :: Read a => String -> Maybe a
> maybeRead s = case reads s of
> [(x, "")] -> Just x
> _ -> Nothing
Note, if you want to match the behavior of read, you'll probably want
something like:
maybeRead :: Read a => String -> Maybe a
maybeRead s = case reads s of
[(x, str)] | all isSpace str -> Just x
_ -> Nothing
Otherwise, trailing spaces will yield a bad parse.
-- Dan
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