On Wednesday 30 January 2008 13:51:58 you wrote: > > Okay, but then I have to make sure that my strings won't contain any > > newline characters, right? If this is the case, another question raises > > up: I am using Data.Binary to do the serialization of my data structures > > to ByteString, so does anybody know if this makes guarantees about > > newline characters in the resulting ByteString? > > Otherwise I would go for the "transmit the length of what to > > expect"-solution. > > Fortunately there is an easy way to hide newlines. > > Use "show" > > That will wrap newlines as \n, as well as coping with other odd > characters like NULL which might upset a C library (if you're talking to > C at any point). > > Then you use "read" on the far end.
This sounds good, but don't I throw away all (possible) performance gains of transmitting ByteStrings directly when using show/read to convert them to ordinary strings and back? Thanks, Timo _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe