I am curious to understand the logic, the "Haskell Think", here. Why is it that the byteString only supports conversion to int.
daryoush On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dmehrtash: > > I am trying to convert a string to a float. It seems that > Data.ByteString > > library only supports readInt. After some googling I came accross a > > possibloe implementation: [1]http://sequence.svcs.cs.pdx.edu/node/373 > > > > Use the bytstring-lexing library, > > > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring-lexing > > Which provides a copying and non-copying lexer for doubles, > > readDouble :: ByteString -> Maybe (Double, ByteString) > unsafeReadDouble :: ByteString -> Maybe (Double, ByteString) > > -- Don >
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