-- Hoogle documentation, generated by Haddock
-- See Hoogle, http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/


-- | Compact representation of ASCII strings
--   
--   ASCII strings stored using just 7 bits per character. Compared to
--   ByteString, this saves you a whole byte per 8 characters.
@package ascii-string
@version 1

module AsciiString

-- | Compact representation of ASCII string.
data AsciiString

-- | Get the amount of septets.
length :: AsciiString -> Int

-- | Construct from a list of septets encoded in <a>Word8</a>, ignoring the
--   8th bit.
fromSeptetList :: [Word8] -> AsciiString

-- | Convert from ByteString, ignoring each 8th bit in it.
fromByteString :: ByteString -> AsciiString

-- | Convert from ShortByteString, ignoring each 8th bit in it.
fromShortByteString :: ShortByteString -> AsciiString

-- | Convert to a list of septets represented by <a>Word8</a> with the 8th
--   bit always empty.
toSeptetList :: AsciiString -> [Word8]

-- | Convert to bytestring.
toByteString :: AsciiString -> ByteString

-- | Convert to short bytestring.
toShortByteString :: AsciiString -> ShortByteString
instance GHC.Classes.Eq AsciiString.AsciiString
instance GHC.Classes.Ord AsciiString.AsciiString
instance GHC.Generics.Generic AsciiString.AsciiString
instance Data.Hashable.Class.Hashable AsciiString.AsciiString
instance GHC.Show.Show AsciiString.AsciiString
instance Data.String.IsString AsciiString.AsciiString
instance Data.Serialize.Serialize AsciiString.AsciiString