You should have a look at the Read class. A member a of the Read class has a function read :: String -> a.
so, for example, you can say: (read "5.0") :: Double to read this as a double. You could also read it as an integer or something. If you have a list of strings that you want to convert to a list of integers, you could do: map (\x -> (read x)::Double) [list of strings] Hope that helps. - Hal -- Hal Daume III "Computer science is no more about computers | [EMAIL PROTECTED] than astronomy is about telescopes." -Dijkstra | www.isi.edu/~hdaume On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, DK wrote: > Hello. First of all I am a beginner in Haskell, and I must confess I do not yet >fully understand it. I need to write a program in Haskell, though, and I am having >some difficulties... > > What I would like to ask, is how can I take a string from a list, and manipulate it, >in order to convert it to an integer. Any help would be very appreciated. > > Thank you very much, > Dimitris > _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
