Text.StringConvert

Provides universal conversions between any two string-like types. Out-of-the-box, Text (both lazy and strict), ByteString (both lazy and strict), and String, are supported.

To hook custom string types into the conversion mechanism, implement both FromString and ToString for your type, and optionally provide special cases for conversions to and from some other string-like type by implementing StringConvert directly.

Documentation

class FromString a where

Methods

fromString :: String -> a

Instances

FromString ByteString

FromString ByteString

FromString Text

FromString Text

FromString [Char]

class ToString a where

Defines how a given type should be converted to String. If at all possible, the conversion should be loss-less, and if encodings are involved, UTF-8 should be the default.

Methods

toString :: a -> String

Instances

ToString ByteString

ToString Text

ToString Text

ToString [Char]

class StringConvert a b where

Defines conversions between two given stringish types.

Methods

s :: a -> b

Instances

(ToString a, FromString b) => StringConvert a b

StringConvert ByteString ByteString

StringConvert ByteString ByteString

StringConvert Text Text

StringConvert Text Text