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Data.String

Copyright (c) The University of Glasgow 2007
License BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE)
Maintainer [email protected]
Stability experimental
Portability portable
Safe Haskell Trustworthy
Language Haskell2010

Description

The String type and associated operations.

type String = [Char] Source

A String is a list of characters. String constants in Haskell are values of type String.

class IsString a where Source

Class for string-like datastructures; used by the overloaded string extension (-XOverloadedStrings in GHC).

Methods

fromString :: String -> a Source

Instances

Functions on strings

lines :: String -> [String] Source

lines breaks a string up into a list of strings at newline characters. The resulting strings do not contain newlines.

words :: String -> [String] Source

words breaks a string up into a list of words, which were delimited by white space.

unlines :: [String] -> String Source

unlines is an inverse operation to lines. It joins lines, after appending a terminating newline to each.

unwords :: [String] -> String Source

unwords is an inverse operation to words. It joins words with separating spaces.

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