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 conver
Title: RE: String manipulation.
You may want to use reads
as read will call error if the
string is not an integer
or use something akin to the example below
readMaybeInt :: String -> Maybe Int
readMaybeInt s = case reads s of
[(x,_)] ->
Title: RE: String manipulation.
Thank you very much I'll try both
approaches.
Regards, Dimitris
Keramidas
"DK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
That's very simple, and I'm of course happy to help out with homework
questions. (That's what mailinglists are for, after all.) So, ho
