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You can reach the person managing the list at beginners-ow...@haskell.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Beginners digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Getting a specified number of lines from stdin (frantisek kocun) 2. Re: Getting a specified number of lines from stdin (Rein Henrichs) 3. Re: Getting a specified number of lines from stdin (Rein Henrichs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:34:23 +0100 From: frantisek kocun <frantisek.ko...@gmail.com> To: The Haskell-Beginners Mailing List - Discussion of primarily beginner-level topics related to Haskell <beginners@haskell.org> Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Getting a specified number of lines from stdin Message-ID: <camcun70z5-076w0wgdspnex5sh+dkvg3evcxhou38c73qka...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Here is the answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34910992/iterate-io-actions-and-laziness You need to write recursive function, not to use iterage or to liftM (take 5) $ sequence $ repeat (unsafeInterleaveIO getLine) On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Nicolaas du Preez <njdupr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Good day All, > > Why does > > liftM (take 5) $ sequence $ repeat getLine > > not stop at reading only 5 lines from stdin but keeps on reading more? > > What I?m really trying to achieve is to get input from the user until > an empty line is read with the code below. But this doesn?t work > as I expected, similar to the above. > > liftM (takeWhile (/= "")) $ sequence $ repeat getLine > > > Regards, > Nicolaas du Preez > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > Beginners@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beginners > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/beginners/attachments/20160311/9de4b881/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:48:40 +0000 From: Rein Henrichs <rein.henri...@gmail.com> To: The Haskell-Beginners Mailing List - Discussion of primarily beginner-level topics related to Haskell <beginners@haskell.org> Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Getting a specified number of lines from stdin Message-ID: <CAJp6G8z=ddfparxm7--mo-vw0n2g0zdcqlzznxpa+wf1i5y...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" That is an unnecessary use of unsafeInterleaveIO. The solution is actually quite simple: getLines n = replicateM n getLine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/beginners/attachments/20160311/0bd4be3a/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:50:06 +0000 From: Rein Henrichs <rein.henri...@gmail.com> To: The Haskell-Beginners Mailing List - Discussion of primarily beginner-level topics related to Haskell <beginners@haskell.org> Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Getting a specified number of lines from stdin Message-ID: <CAJp6G8x_AiVg6MBYpcTsNJSn=nfuzueljcd4x+jwewu7wm7...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Note that replicateM n k = sequence (replicate n k), so this solution is equivalent to Henk-Jan van Tuyl's original solution. On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 1:48 PM Rein Henrichs <rein.henri...@gmail.com> wrote: > That is an unnecessary use of unsafeInterleaveIO. The solution is actually > quite simple: > > getLines n = replicateM n getLine > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/beginners/attachments/20160311/23d8fb00/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beginners ------------------------------ End of Beginners Digest, Vol 93, Issue 9 ****************************************