Data.ByteString.Char8

The ByteString type

data ByteString

Introducing and eliminating ByteStrings

empty

singleton

pack

unpack

Basic interface

cons

snoc

append

head

uncons

unsnoc

last

tail

init

null

length

Transformating ByteStrings

map

reverse

intersperse

intercalate

transpose

Reducing ByteStrings (folds)

foldl

foldl'

foldl1

foldl1'

foldr

foldr'

foldr1

foldr1'

Special folds

concat

concatMap

any

all

maximum

minimum

Building ByteStrings

Scans

scanl

scanl1

scanr

scanr1

Accumulating maps

mapAccumL

mapAccumR

Generating and unfolding ByteStrings

replicate

unfoldr

unfoldrN

Substrings

Breaking strings

take

drop

splitAt

takeWhile

dropWhile

span

spanEnd

break

breakEnd

group

groupBy

inits

tails

Breaking into many substrings

split

splitWith

Breaking into lines and words

lines

words

unlines

unwords

Predicates

isPrefixOf

isSuffixOf

isInfixOf

Search for arbitrary substrings

breakSubstring

findSubstring

findSubstrings

Searching ByteStrings

Searching by equality

elem

notElem

Searching with a predicate

find

filter

Indexing ByteStrings

index

elemIndex

elemIndices

elemIndexEnd

findIndex

findIndices

count

Zipping and unzipping ByteStrings

zip

zipWith

unzip

Ordered ByteStrings

sort

Reading from ByteStrings

readInt

readInteger

Low level CString conversions

Copying ByteStrings

copy

Packing CStrings and pointers

packCString

packCStringLen

Using ByteStrings as CStrings

useAsCString

useAsCStringLen

I/O with ByteStrings

Standard input and output

getLine

getContents

putStr

putStrLn

interact

Files

readFile

writeFile

appendFile

I/O with Handles

hGetLine

hGetContents

hGet

hGetSome

hGetNonBlocking

hPut

hPutNonBlocking

hPutStr

hPutStrLn