ListLike-4.5: Generic support for list-like structures

CopyrightCopyright (C) 2007 John Goerzen
LicenseBSD3
MaintainerJohn Lato <jwlato@gmail.com>
Stabilityprovisional
Portabilityportable
Safe HaskellSafe
LanguageHaskell98

Data.ListLike.String

Description

String-like functions

Written by John Goerzen, jgoerzen@complete.org

Synopsis

Documentation

class StringLike s where Source #

An extension to ListLike for those data types that are similar to a String. Minimal complete definition is toString and fromString.

Minimal complete definition

toString, fromString

Methods

toString :: s -> String Source #

Converts the structure to a String

fromString :: String -> s Source #

Converts a String to a list

lines :: ListLike full s => s -> full Source #

Breaks a string into a list of strings

words :: ListLike full s => s -> full Source #

Breaks a string into a list of words

unlines :: ListLike full s => full -> s Source #

Joins lines

unwords :: ListLike full s => full -> s Source #

Joins words