Data.ByteString.Char8

O(n) Concatenate a list of ByteStrings.

Map a function over a ByteString and concatenate the results

Applied to a predicate and a ByteString, any determines if any element of the ByteString satisfies the predicate.

Applied to a predicate and a ByteString, all determines if all elements of the ByteString satisfy the predicate.

maximum returns the maximum value from a ByteString

minimum returns the minimum value from a ByteString

scanl is similar to foldl, but returns a list of successive reduced values from the left:

scanl f z [x1, x2, ...] == [z, z `f` x1, (z `f` x1) `f` x2, ...]

Note that

last (scanl f z xs) == foldl f z xs.

scanl1 is a variant of scanl that has no starting value argument:

scanl1 f [x1, x2, ...] == [x1, x1 `f` x2, ...]

scanr is the right-to-left dual of scanl.

scanr1 is a variant of scanr that has no starting value argument.

The mapAccumL function behaves like a combination of map and foldl; it applies a function to each element of a ByteString, passing an accumulating parameter from left to right, and returning a final value of this accumulator together with the new ByteString.

The mapAccumR function behaves like a combination of map and foldr; it applies a function to each element of a ByteString, passing an accumulating parameter from right to left, and returning a final value of this accumulator together with the new ByteString.

O(n) replicate n x is a ByteString of length n with x the value of every element. The following holds:

replicate w c = unfoldr w (\u -> Just (u,u)) c

This implementation uses memset(3)

O(n), where n is the length of the result. The unfoldr function is analogous to the List 'unfoldr'. unfoldr builds a ByteString from a seed value. The function takes the element and returns Nothing if it is done producing the ByteString or returns Just (a,b), in which case, a is the next character in the string, and b is the seed value for further production.

Examples:

unfoldr (\x -> if x <= '9' then Just (x, succ x) else Nothing) '0' == "0123456789"

O(n) Like unfoldr, unfoldrN builds a ByteString from a seed value. However, the length of the result is limited by the first argument to unfoldrN. This function is more efficient than unfoldr when the maximum length of the result is known.

The following equation relates unfoldrN and unfoldr:

unfoldrN n f s == take n (unfoldr f s)

O(1) take n, applied to a ByteString xs, returns the prefix of xs of length n, or xs itself if n > length xs.

O(1) takeEnd n xs is equivalent to drop (length xs - n) xs. Takes n elements from end of bytestring.

>>> takeEnd 3 "abcdefg""efg">>> takeEnd 0 "abcdefg""">>> takeEnd 4 "abc""abc"

O(1) drop n xs returns the suffix of xs after the first n elements, or empty if n > length xs.

O(1) dropEnd n xs is equivalent to take (length xs - n) xs. Drops n elements from end of bytestring.

>>> dropEnd 3 "abcdefg""abcd">>> dropEnd 0 "abcdefg""abcdefg">>> dropEnd 4 "abc"""

O(1) splitAt n xs is equivalent to (take n xs, drop n xs).

takeWhile, applied to a predicate p and a ByteString xs, returns the longest prefix (possibly empty) of xs of elements that satisfy p.

takeWhileEnd, applied to a predicate p and a ByteString xs, returns the longest suffix (possibly empty) of xs of elements that satisfy p.

dropWhile p xs returns the suffix remaining after takeWhile p xs.

dropWhileEnd p xs returns the prefix remaining after takeWhileEnd p xs.

dropSpace efficiently returns the ByteString argument with white space Chars removed from the front. It is more efficient than calling dropWhile for removing whitespace. I.e.

dropWhile isSpace == dropSpace

span p xs breaks the ByteString into two segments. It is equivalent to (takeWhile p xs, dropWhile p xs)

spanEnd behaves like span but from the end of the ByteString. We have

spanEnd (not.isSpace) "x y z" == ("x y ","z")

and

spanEnd (not . isSpace) ps
   ==
let (x,y) = span (not.isSpace) (reverse ps) in (reverse y, reverse x)

break p is equivalent to span (not . p).

breakEnd behaves like break but from the end of the ByteString

breakEnd p == spanEnd (not.p)

The group function takes a ByteString and returns a list of ByteStrings such that the concatenation of the result is equal to the argument. Moreover, each string in the result contains only equal elements. For example,

group "Mississippi" = ["M","i","ss","i","ss","i","pp","i"]

It is a special case of groupBy, which allows the programmer to supply their own equality test. It is about 40% faster than groupBy (==)

The groupBy function is the non-overloaded version of group.

O(n) Returns all initial segments of the given ByteString, shortest first.

O(n) Returns all final segments of the given ByteString, longest first.

O(n) Returns all initial segments of the given ByteString, shortest first.

O(n) Returns all final segments of the given ByteString, longest first.

Remove leading and trailing white space from a ByteString.

O(n) The stripPrefix function takes two ByteStrings and returns Just the remainder of the second iff the first is its prefix, and otherwise Nothing.

O(n) The stripSuffix function takes two ByteStrings and returns Just the remainder of the second iff the first is its suffix, and otherwise Nothing.

O(n) Break a ByteString into pieces separated by the byte argument, consuming the delimiter. I.e.

split '\n' "a\nb\nd\ne" == ["a","b","d","e"]
split 'a'  "aXaXaXa"    == ["","X","X","X",""]
split 'x'  "x"          == ["",""]
split undefined ""      == []  -- and not [""]

and

intercalate [c] . split c == id
split == splitWith . (==)

As for all splitting functions in this library, this function does not copy the substrings, it just constructs new ByteStrings that are slices of the original.

O(n) Splits a ByteString into components delimited by separators, where the predicate returns True for a separator element. The resulting components do not contain the separators. Two adjacent separators result in an empty component in the output. eg.

splitWith (=='a') "aabbaca" == ["","","bb","c",""]
splitWith undefined ""      == []  -- and not [""]

lines breaks a ByteString up into a list of ByteStrings at newline Chars ('\n'). The resulting strings do not contain newlines.

Note that it does not regard CR ('\r') as a newline character.

words breaks a ByteString up into a list of words, which were delimited by Chars representing white space.

unlines joins lines, appending a terminating newline after each.

Equivalent to concat . Data.List.concatMap (\x -> [x, singleton '\n']).

The unwords function is analogous to the unlines function, on words.

Break a string on a substring, returning a pair of the part of the string prior to the match, and the rest of the string.

The following relationships hold:

break (== c) l == breakSubstring (singleton c) l

For example, to tokenise a string, dropping delimiters:

tokenise x y = h : if null t then [] else tokenise x (drop (length x) t)
    where (h,t) = breakSubstring x y

To skip to the first occurrence of a string:

snd (breakSubstring x y)

To take the parts of a string before a delimiter:

fst (breakSubstring x y)

Note that calling `breakSubstring x` does some preprocessing work, so you should avoid unnecessarily duplicating breakSubstring calls with the same pattern.

O(n) elem is the ByteString membership predicate. This implementation uses memchr(3).

O(n) notElem is the inverse of elem

O(n) The find function takes a predicate and a ByteString, and returns the first element in matching the predicate, or Nothing if there is no such element.

O(n) filter, applied to a predicate and a ByteString, returns a ByteString containing those characters that satisfy the predicate.

O(n) Make a copy of the ByteString with its own storage. This is mainly useful to allow the rest of the data pointed to by the ByteString to be garbage collected, for example if a large string has been read in, and only a small part of it is needed in the rest of the program.

O(n). Construct a new ByteString from a CString. The resulting ByteString is an immutable copy of the original CString, and is managed on the Haskell heap. The original CString must be null terminated.

O(n). Construct a new ByteString from a CStringLen. The resulting ByteString is an immutable copy of the original CStringLen. The ByteString is a normal Haskell value and will be managed on the Haskell heap.

O(n) construction Use a ByteString with a function requiring a null-terminated CString. The CString is a copy and will be freed automatically; it must not be stored or used after the subcomputation finishes.

O(n) construction Use a ByteString with a function requiring a CStringLen. As for useAsCString this function makes a copy of the original ByteString. It must not be stored or used after the subcomputation finishes.

Beware that this function is not required to add a terminating NUL byte at the end of the CStringLen it provides. If you need to construct a pointer to a null-terminated sequence, use useAsCString (and measure length independently if desired).

Read a line from stdin.

getContents. Read stdin strictly. Equivalent to hGetContents stdin The Handle is closed after the contents have been read.

Write a ByteString to stdout.

Write a ByteString to stdout, appending a newline byte.

Unlike putStr, this is not atomic: other threads might write to stdout between writing of the bytestring and the newline.

The interact function takes a function of type ByteString -> ByteString as its argument. The entire input from the standard input device is passed to this function as its argument, and the resulting string is output on the standard output device.

Read an entire file strictly into a ByteString.

Write a ByteString to a file.

Append a ByteString to a file.

Read a line from a handle

Read a handle's entire contents strictly into a ByteString.

This function reads chunks at a time, increasing the chunk size on each read. The final string is then reallocated to the appropriate size. For files > half of available memory, this may lead to memory exhaustion. Consider using readFile in this case.

The Handle is closed once the contents have been read, or if an exception is thrown.

Read a ByteString directly from the specified Handle. This is far more efficient than reading the characters into a String and then using pack. First argument is the Handle to read from, and the second is the number of bytes to read. It returns the bytes read, up to n, or empty if EOF has been reached.

hGet is implemented in terms of hGetBuf.

If the handle is a pipe or socket, and the writing end is closed, hGet will behave as if EOF was reached.

Like hGet, except that a shorter ByteString may be returned if there are not enough bytes immediately available to satisfy the whole request. hGetSome only blocks if there is no data available, and EOF has not yet been reached.

hGetNonBlocking is similar to hGet, except that it will never block waiting for data to become available, instead it returns only whatever data is available. If there is no data available to be read, hGetNonBlocking returns empty.

Note: on Windows and with Haskell implementation other than GHC, this function does not work correctly; it behaves identically to hGet.

Outputs a ByteString to the specified Handle.

Similar to hPut except that it will never block. Instead it returns any tail that did not get written. This tail may be empty in the case that the whole string was written, or the whole original string if nothing was written. Partial writes are also possible.

Note: on Windows and with Haskell implementation other than GHC, this function does not work correctly; it behaves identically to hPut.

A synonym for hPut, for compatibility

Write a ByteString to a handle, appending a newline byte.

Unlike hPutStr, this is not atomic: other threads might write to the handle between writing of the bytestring and the newline.