Data.String (original) (raw)

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• Functions on strings

Description

The String type and associated operations.

Synopsis

• type String = [Char]
• class IsString a where
  • fromString :: String -> a
• lines :: String -> [String]
• words :: String -> [String]
• unlines :: [String] -> String
• unwords :: [String] -> String

Documentation

class IsString a whereSource

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

Functions on strings

lines :: String -> [String]Source

[lines](Data-String.html#v:lines) breaks a string up into a list of strings at newline characters. The resulting strings do not contain newlines.