| Portability | portable |
|---|---|
| Stability | experimental |
| Maintainer | libraries@haskell.org |
| Safe Haskell | Trustworthy |
Data.String
Contents
Description
The String type and associated operations.
Documentation
class IsString a where
Class for string-like datastructures; used by the overloaded string extension (-foverloaded-strings in GHC).
Methods
fromString :: String -> a
Functions on strings
lines breaks a string up into a list of strings at newline
characters. The resulting strings do not contain newlines.
words breaks a string up into a list of words, which were delimited
by white space.