Debian.Control.String

Types

newtype Control' a

Constructors

Control [Paragraph' a]

Instances

Pretty (Control' String)

This may have bad performance issues (why?)

Pretty (Control' Text)

parseFromFile p filePath runs a string parser p on the input read from filePath using readFile. Returns either a ParseError (Left) or a value of type a (Right).

  main    = do{ result <- parseFromFile numbers "digits.txt"
              ; case result of
                  Left err  -> print err
                  Right xs  -> print (sum xs)
              }

This may have bad performance issues (why?)

newtype Paragraph' a

Constructors

Paragraph [Field' a]

Instances

Eq a => Eq (Paragraph' a)

Pretty (Paragraph' String)

Pretty (Paragraph' Text)

data Field' a

NOTE: we do not strip the leading or trailing whitespace in the name or value

Constructors

Field (a, a)

Comment a

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Instances

Eq a => Eq (Field' a)

Pretty (Field' String)

Pretty (Field' Text)

type Control = Control' String

type Paragraph = Paragraph' String

type Field = Field' String

type ControlParser a = CharParser () a

class ControlFunctions a where

Methods

parseControlFromFile :: FilePath -> IO (Either ParseError (Control' a))

parseControlFromFile filepath is a simple wrapper function that parses filepath using pControl

parseControlFromHandle :: String -> Handle -> IO (Either ParseError (Control' a))

parseControlFromHandle sourceName handle - sourceName is only used for error reporting

parseControl :: String -> a -> Either ParseError (Control' a)

parseControlFromString sourceName text - sourceName is only used for error reporting

lookupP :: String -> Paragraph' a -> Maybe (Field' a)

lookupP fieldName paragraph looks up a Field in a Paragraph. N.B. trailing and leading whitespace is not stripped.

stripWS :: a -> a

Strip the trailing and leading space and tab characters from a string. Folded whitespace is not unfolded. This should probably be moved to someplace more general purpose.

asString :: a -> String

Instances

ControlFunctions String

ControlFunctions ByteString

ControlFunctions Text

Control File Parser

pControl :: ControlParser Control

A parser for debian control file. This parser handles control files that end without a newline as well as ones that have several blank lines at the end. It is very liberal and does not attempt validate the fields in any way. All trailing, leading, and folded whitespace is preserved in the field values. See stripWS.

Helper Functions

mergeControls :: [Control' a] -> Control' a

fieldValue :: ControlFunctions a => String -> Paragraph' a -> Maybe a

removeField :: Eq a => a -> Paragraph' a -> Paragraph' a

prependFields :: [Field' a] -> Paragraph' a -> Paragraph' a

appendFields :: [Field' a] -> Paragraph' a -> Paragraph' a

renameField :: Eq a => a -> a -> Paragraph' a -> Paragraph' a

modifyField :: Eq a => a -> (a -> a) -> Paragraph' a -> Paragraph' a

raiseFields :: Eq a => (a -> Bool) -> Paragraph' a -> Paragraph' a

Move selected fields to the beginning of a paragraph.