| 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.