>>>>> "AvI" == Arjan van IJzendoorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AvI> Hello Friedrich,
AvI> Turning a string into an integer is easy with the Prelude function 'read':
AvI> n :: Integer
AvI> n = read "-34232"
Yes, other have told me. As I mailed back I was just too blind.
AvI> Your own function can be made to work for negative numbers by a simple
AvI> wrapper:
AvI> stringToInteger :: String -> Integer
AvI> stringToInteger ('-':rest) = -string_to_integer rest
AvI> stringToInteger string = string_to_integer string
This is quite nice but anyway I do not like it. I can't tell the reason, but
it seems to me that this does not desrves an own function.
Regards
Friedrich
