As usual a beginner in Haskell. Trying to write a simple program in haskel
shown below
main :: IO()
main =catch (do
hexFile <- readFile "file"
putStr "What is the key number (0 or 1)?\n"
keyno <- getLine
putStr "Input key.\n"
key <- getLine
newLine <- outputLine keyno key (lines(hexFile))
bla bla bla........
getLeft :: String -> String -> String
getLeft _ [] = ""
getLeft key line
|key == "0" = take 9 line
|otherwise = take 25 line
getRight :: String ->String -> String
getRight _ [] = ""
getRight key line
|key == "0" = drop 25 line
|otherwise = drop 41 line
outputLine keyno key orgFile = do
part1 <- getLeft keyno orgFile
part2 <- getRight keyno orgFile
total <- part1 ++ (strUpper key) ++ part2 ++ "\n"
newHexFile <- openFileEx "newfile" (BinaryMode WriteMode)
hPutStrLn newHexFile (orgFile!!0 ++ "\n" ++ total ++ unlines (drop 2
orgFile))
strUpper :: String -> String
strUpper [] = ""
--strUpper x:xs = (toUpper x):(strUpper xs)
And I keep getting the error
changecode.hs:42:
Couldn't match `[a]' against `Char'
Expected type: [a]
Inferred type: Char
In the first argument of `(++)', namely `part1'
In a 'do' expression:
total <- part1 ++ ((strUpper key) ++ (part2 ++ "\n"))
I have tried thousands and thousand of modifications (Originally getLeft and
getRight didn't exist, the code was part of outputLine) but it keeps
thinking that orgFile is a String when clearlly it is a [String]. Also I can
get my function strUpper (Which simply puts strings to Upper case) to work.
Can anybody see what is wrong here?
Best Regards
Alex
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