On 5 Apr 2000, Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
> So my question is: Exists such a function or do I have to write it on my own? And
>the other is what would you
> think would be a good Haskell soluton for turing a string to an Integer.
>
Yes of course!
it is called: read
Prelude> read "12334" + 4
12338
Prelude> read "-123"::Int
-123
read is polymorphic, and can be used to build a value of any type that is
an instance of Read.
Prelude> read "True"::Bool
True
Prelude> read "[1,2,3,4]"::[Int]
[1,2,3,4]
I hope this helps.
/Lars L
