I mean catch the read exception without escaping all the way out to the IO monad.
-Alex- On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote: > I want to read strings that look like "2" or > "hello" into values of type Integer or String. > The problem is that read requires that strings be > read as "\"hello\"". Is there a way either to > convince read to not require wrapping quotation > marks or, alternetively, to catch a read > exception, and do something sane? > > -Alex- > > _________________________________________________________________ > S. Alexander Jacobson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > tel:917-770-6565 http://alexjacobson.com > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _________________________________________________________________ S. Alexander Jacobson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:917-770-6565 http://alexjacobson.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
