System.IO

The IO monad

data IO a

fixIO

Files and handles

type FilePath

data Handle

Standard handles

stdin

stdout

stderr

Opening and closing files

Opening files

withFile

openFile

data IOMode

Closing files

hClose

Special cases

readFile

writeFile

appendFile

File locking

Operations on handles

Determining and changing the size of a file

hFileSize

hSetFileSize

Detecting the end of input

hIsEOF

isEOF

Buffering operations

data BufferMode

hSetBuffering

hGetBuffering

hFlush

Repositioning handles

hGetPosn

hSetPosn

data HandlePosn

hSeek

data SeekMode

hTell

Handle properties

hIsOpen

hIsClosed

hIsReadable

hIsWritable

hIsSeekable

Terminal operations (not portable: GHC only)

hIsTerminalDevice

hSetEcho

hGetEcho

Showing handle state (not portable: GHC only)

hShow

Text input and output

Text input

hWaitForInput

hReady

hGetChar

hGetLine

hLookAhead

hGetContents

Text output

hPutChar

hPutStr

hPutStrLn

hPrint

Special cases for standard input and output

interact

putChar

putStr

putStrLn

print

getChar

getLine

getContents

readIO

readLn

Binary input and output

withBinaryFile

openBinaryFile

hSetBinaryMode

hPutBuf

hGetBuf

hGetBufSome

hPutBufNonBlocking

hGetBufNonBlocking

Temporary files

openTempFile

openBinaryTempFile

openTempFileWithDefaultPermissions

openBinaryTempFileWithDefaultPermissions

Unicode encoding/decoding

hSetEncoding

hGetEncoding

Unicode encodings

data TextEncoding

latin1

utf8

utf8_bom

utf16

utf16le

utf16be

utf32

utf32le

utf32be

localeEncoding

char8

mkTextEncoding

Newline conversion

hSetNewlineMode

data Newline

nativeNewline

data NewlineMode

noNewlineTranslation

universalNewlineMode

nativeNewlineMode