Distribution.Hup.Parse

extract info from cabal files and .tgz names.

Documentation

rstrip :: String -> String

strip whitespace from end

lstrip :: String -> String

strip whitespace from beginning

replace :: Eq a => [a] -> [a] -> [a] -> [a]

Replace a subsequence everywhere it occurs. The first argument must not be the empty list.

from NDM's extra-1.5.1 https://hackage.haskell.org/package/extra-1.5.1

replace "el" "_" "Hello Bella" == "H_lo B_la"
replace "el" "e" "Hello"       == "Helo"
replace "" "e" "Hello"         == undefined
\xs ys -> not (null xs) ==> replace xs xs ys == ys

takeWhileEnd :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]

Like dropWhileEnd, but for take.

(taken from filepath-1.4.1.1)

spanEnd :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> ([a], [a])

like span, but from the end

breakEnd :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> ([a], [a])

like break, but from the end

findCabal :: IO (Maybe FilePath)

if there's a .cabal file in the current dir, return its file name.

from NDM's neil-0.10, https://hackage.haskell.org/package/neil-0.10

readCabal :: IO String

find & read contents of Cabal file from current dir, if it exists. else returns empty string.

from NDM's neil-0.10, https://hackage.haskell.org/package/neil-0.10

extractCabal :: String -> String -> String

extractCabal fieldName cabalConts: extract contents of field named fieldName from a Cabal file string.

field name is case-insensitive [folded to lowercase]

from NDM's neil-0.10, https://hackage.haskell.org/package/neil-0.10

parseTgzFilename :: (IsString s, MonadError s m) => FilePath -> m (IsDocumentation, Package)

Inspect the name of a .tar.gz file to work out the package name and version it's for, and whether it is for documentation or a package.

parseTgzFilename' :: IsString s => FilePath -> Either s (IsDocumentation, Package)

parseTgzFilename' specialized to Either.

module Distribution.Hup.Types