Nick Name wrote: > I would like to use hGetContents just to retrieve the list of the lines > of a file, but if I code a function like: > > linesFromFile :: FilePath -> IO [String] > linesFromFile f = do > h <- openFile f ReadMode > l <- hGetContents h > hClose h > return (lines l) > > I obviously always get the empty list as a result. How should I code the > function?
Just omit the hClose; hGetContents will automatically close the handle once all of the data has actually been read. See §11.2.1 of the library report for details. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
