hw-polysemy-0.2.5.0: Opinionated polysemy library
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HaskellWorks.Polysemy.Data.ByteString.Strict

Synopsis

Strict ByteString

data ByteString #

A space-efficient representation of a Word8 vector, supporting many efficient operations.

A ByteString contains 8-bit bytes, or by using the operations from Data.ByteString.Char8 it can be interpreted as containing 8-bit characters.

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Chunk ByteString 
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type ChunkElem ByteString #

Data ByteString 
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Methods

gfoldl :: (forall d b. Data d => c (d -> b) -> d -> c b) -> (forall g. g -> c g) -> ByteString -> c ByteString #

gunfold :: (forall b r. Data b => c (b -> r) -> c r) -> (forall r. r -> c r) -> Constr -> c ByteString #

toConstr :: ByteString -> Constr #

dataTypeOf :: ByteString -> DataType #

dataCast1 :: Typeable t => (forall d. Data d => c (t d)) -> Maybe (c ByteString) #

dataCast2 :: Typeable t => (forall d e. (Data d, Data e) => c (t d e)) -> Maybe (c ByteString) #

gmapT :: (forall b. Data b => b -> b) -> ByteString -> ByteString #

gmapQl :: (r -> r' -> r) -> r -> (forall d. Data d => d -> r') -> ByteString -> r #

gmapQr :: forall r r'. (r' -> r -> r) -> r -> (forall d. Data d => d -> r') -> ByteString -> r #

gmapQ :: (forall d. Data d => d -> u) -> ByteString -> [u] #

gmapQi :: Int -> (forall d. Data d => d -> u) -> ByteString -> u #

gmapM :: Monad m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> ByteString -> m ByteString #

gmapMp :: MonadPlus m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> ByteString -> m ByteString #

gmapMo :: MonadPlus m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> ByteString -> m ByteString #

IsString ByteString

Beware: fromString truncates multi-byte characters to octets. e.g. "枯朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮" becomes �6k�nh~�Q��n�

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Monoid ByteString 
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Semigroup ByteString 
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IsList ByteString

Since: bytestring-0.10.12.0

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type Item ByteString #

Read ByteString 
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Show ByteString 
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NFData ByteString 
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rnf :: ByteString -> () #

Eq ByteString 
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Ord ByteString 
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Hashable ByteString 
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Lift ByteString

Since: bytestring-0.11.2.0

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lift :: Quote m => ByteString -> m Exp #

liftTyped :: forall (m :: Type -> Type). Quote m => ByteString -> Code m ByteString #

type ChunkElem ByteString 
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type State ByteString 
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type State ByteString = Buffer
type Item ByteString 
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Introducing and eliminating ByteStrings

empty :: ByteString #

O(1) The empty ByteString

singleton :: Word8 -> ByteString #

O(1) Convert a Word8 into a ByteString

pack :: [Word8] -> ByteString #

O(n) Convert a [Word8] into a ByteString.

For applications with large numbers of string literals, pack can be a bottleneck. In such cases, consider using unsafePackAddress (GHC only).

unpack :: ByteString -> [Word8] #

O(n) Converts a ByteString to a [Word8].

fromStrict :: ByteString -> ByteString #

O(1) Convert a strict ByteString into a lazy ByteString.

toStrict :: ByteString -> ByteString #

O(n) Convert a lazy ByteString into a strict ByteString.

Note that this is an expensive operation that forces the whole lazy ByteString into memory and then copies all the data. If possible, try to avoid converting back and forth between strict and lazy bytestrings.

Basic interface

cons :: Word8 -> ByteString -> ByteString infixr 5 #

O(n) cons is analogous to (:) for lists, but of different complexity, as it requires making a copy.

snoc :: ByteString -> Word8 -> ByteString infixl 5 #

O(n) Append a byte to the end of a ByteString

append :: ByteString -> ByteString -> ByteString #

O(n) Append two ByteStrings

head :: HasCallStack => ByteString -> Word8 #

O(1) Extract the first element of a ByteString, which must be non-empty. An exception will be thrown in the case of an empty ByteString.

This is a partial function, consider using uncons instead.

uncons :: ByteString -> Maybe (Word8, ByteString) #

O(1) Extract the head and tail of a ByteString, returning Nothing if it is empty.

unsnoc :: ByteString -> Maybe (ByteString, Word8) #

O(1) Extract the init and last of a ByteString, returning Nothing if it is empty.

last :: HasCallStack => ByteString -> Word8 #

O(1) Extract the last element of a ByteString, which must be finite and non-empty. An exception will be thrown in the case of an empty ByteString.

This is a partial function, consider using unsnoc instead.

tail :: HasCallStack => ByteString -> ByteString #

O(1) Extract the elements after the head of a ByteString, which must be non-empty. An exception will be thrown in the case of an empty ByteString.

This is a partial function, consider using uncons instead.

init :: HasCallStack => ByteString -> ByteString #

O(1) Returns all the elements of a ByteString except the last one. An exception will be thrown in the case of an empty ByteString.

This is a partial function, consider using unsnoc instead.

null :: ByteString -> Bool #

O(1) Test whether a ByteString is empty.

length :: ByteString -> Int #

O(1) length returns the length of a ByteString as an Int.

Transforming ByteStrings

map :: (Word8 -> Word8) -> ByteString -> ByteString #

O(n) map f xs is the ByteString obtained by applying f to each element of xs.

reverse :: ByteString -> ByteString #

O(n) reverse xs efficiently returns the elements of xs in reverse order.

intersperse :: Word8 -> ByteString -> ByteString #

O(n) The intersperse function takes a Word8 and a ByteString and `intersperses' that byte between the elements of the ByteString. It is analogous to the intersperse function on Lists.

intercalate :: ByteString -> [ByteString] -> ByteString #

O(n) The intercalate function takes a ByteString and a list of ByteStrings and concatenates the list after interspersing the first argument between each element of the list.

transpose :: [ByteString] -> [ByteString] #

The transpose function transposes the rows and columns of its ByteString argument.

Reducing ByteStrings (folds)

foldl :: (a -> Word8 -> a) -> a -> ByteString -> a #

foldl, applied to a binary operator, a starting value (typically the left-identity of the operator), and a ByteString, reduces the ByteString using the binary operator, from left to right.

foldl' :: (a -> Word8 -> a) -> a -> ByteString -> a #

foldl' is like foldl, but strict in the accumulator.

foldl1 :: HasCallStack => (Word8 -> Word8 -> Word8) -> ByteString -> Word8 #

foldl1 is a variant of foldl that has no starting value argument, and thus must be applied to non-empty ByteStrings. An exception will be thrown in the case of an empty ByteString.

foldl1' :: HasCallStack => (Word8 -> Word8 -> Word8) -> ByteString -> Word8 #

foldl1' is like foldl1, but strict in the accumulator. An exception will be thrown in the case of an empty ByteString.

foldr :: (Word8 -> a -> a) -> a -> ByteString -> a #

foldr, applied to a binary operator, a starting value (typically the right-identity of the operator), and a ByteString, reduces the ByteString using the binary operator, from right to left.

foldr' :: (Word8 -> a -> a) -> a -> ByteString -> a #

foldr' is like foldr, but strict in the accumulator.

foldr1 :: HasCallStack => (Word8 -> Word8 -> Word8) -> ByteString -> Word8 #

foldr1 is a variant of foldr that has no starting value argument, and thus must be applied to non-empty ByteStrings An exception will be thrown in the case of an empty ByteString.

foldr1' :: HasCallStack => (Word8 -> Word8 -> Word8) -> ByteString -> Word8 #

foldr1' is a variant of foldr1, but is strict in the accumulator.

Special folds

concat :: [ByteString] -> ByteString #

O(n) Concatenate a list of ByteStrings.

concatMap :: (Word8 -> ByteString) -> ByteString -> ByteString #

Map a function over a ByteString and concatenate the results

any :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> Bool #

O(n) Applied to a predicate and a ByteString, any determines if any element of the ByteString satisfies the predicate.

all :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> Bool #

O(n) Applied to a predicate and a ByteString, all determines if all elements of the ByteString satisfy the predicate.

maximum :: HasCallStack => ByteString -> Word8 #

O(n) maximum returns the maximum value from a ByteString An exception will be thrown in the case of an empty ByteString.

minimum :: HasCallStack => ByteString -> Word8 #

O(n) minimum returns the minimum value from a ByteString An exception will be thrown in the case of an empty ByteString.

Building ByteStrings

Scans

scanl #

Arguments

:: (Word8 -> Word8 -> Word8)

accumulator -> element -> new accumulator

-> Word8

starting value of accumulator

-> ByteString

input of length n

-> ByteString

output of length n+1

scanl is similar to foldl, but returns a list of successive reduced values from the left.

scanl f z [x1, x2, ...] == [z, z `f` x1, (z `f` x1) `f` x2, ...]

Note that

head (scanl f z xs) == z
last (scanl f z xs) == foldl f z xs

scanl1 :: (Word8 -> Word8 -> Word8) -> ByteString -> ByteString #

scanl1 is a variant of scanl that has no starting value argument.

scanl1 f [x1, x2, ...] == [x1, x1 `f` x2, ...]

scanr #

Arguments

:: (Word8 -> Word8 -> Word8)

element -> accumulator -> new accumulator

-> Word8

starting value of accumulator

-> ByteString

input of length n

-> ByteString

output of length n+1

scanr is similar to foldr, but returns a list of successive reduced values from the right.

scanr f z [..., x{n-1}, xn] == [..., x{n-1} `f` (xn `f` z), xn `f` z, z]

Note that

head (scanr f z xs) == foldr f z xs
last (scanr f z xs) == z

scanr1 :: (Word8 -> Word8 -> Word8) -> ByteString -> ByteString #

scanr1 is a variant of scanr that has no starting value argument.

Accumulating maps

mapAccumL :: (acc -> Word8 -> (acc, Word8)) -> acc -> ByteString -> (acc, ByteString) #

The mapAccumL function behaves like a combination of map and foldl; it applies a function to each element of a ByteString, passing an accumulating parameter from left to right, and returning a final value of this accumulator together with the new ByteString.

mapAccumR :: (acc -> Word8 -> (acc, Word8)) -> acc -> ByteString -> (acc, ByteString) #

The mapAccumR function behaves like a combination of map and foldr; it applies a function to each element of a ByteString, passing an accumulating parameter from right to left, and returning a final value of this accumulator together with the new ByteString.

Generating and unfolding ByteStrings

replicate :: Int -> Word8 -> ByteString #

O(n) replicate n x is a ByteString of length n with x the value of every element. The following holds:

replicate w c = fst (unfoldrN w (\u -> Just (u,u)) c)

unfoldr :: (a -> Maybe (Word8, a)) -> a -> ByteString #

O(n), where n is the length of the result. The unfoldr function is analogous to the List 'unfoldr'. unfoldr builds a ByteString from a seed value. The function takes the element and returns Nothing if it is done producing the ByteString or returns Just (a,b), in which case, a is the next byte in the string, and b is the seed value for further production.

Examples:

   unfoldr (\x -> if x <= 5 then Just (x, x + 1) else Nothing) 0
== pack [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

unfoldrN :: Int -> (a -> Maybe (Word8, a)) -> a -> (ByteString, Maybe a) #

O(n) Like unfoldr, unfoldrN builds a ByteString from a seed value. However, the length of the result is limited by the first argument to unfoldrN. This function is more efficient than unfoldr when the maximum length of the result is known.

The following equation relates unfoldrN and unfoldr:

fst (unfoldrN n f s) == take n (unfoldr f s)

Substrings

Breaking strings

take :: Int -> ByteString -> ByteString #

O(1) take n, applied to a ByteString xs, returns the prefix of xs of length n, or xs itself if n > length xs.

takeEnd :: Int -> ByteString -> ByteString #

O(1) takeEnd n xs is equivalent to drop (length xs - n) xs. Takes n elements from end of bytestring.

>>> takeEnd 3 "abcdefg"
"efg"
>>> takeEnd 0 "abcdefg"
""
>>> takeEnd 4 "abc"
"abc"

Since: bytestring-0.11.1.0

drop :: Int -> ByteString -> ByteString #

O(1) drop n xs returns the suffix of xs after the first n elements, or empty if n > length xs.

dropEnd :: Int -> ByteString -> ByteString #

O(1) dropEnd n xs is equivalent to take (length xs - n) xs. Drops n elements from end of bytestring.

>>> dropEnd 3 "abcdefg"
"abcd"
>>> dropEnd 0 "abcdefg"
"abcdefg"
>>> dropEnd 4 "abc"
""

Since: bytestring-0.11.1.0

splitAt :: Int -> ByteString -> (ByteString, ByteString) #

O(1) splitAt n xs is equivalent to (take n xs, drop n xs).

takeWhile :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> ByteString #

Similar to takeWhile, returns the longest (possibly empty) prefix of elements satisfying the predicate.

takeWhileEnd :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> ByteString #

Returns the longest (possibly empty) suffix of elements satisfying the predicate.

takeWhileEnd p is equivalent to reverse . takeWhile p . reverse.

Since: bytestring-0.10.12.0

dropWhile :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> ByteString #

Similar to dropWhile, drops the longest (possibly empty) prefix of elements satisfying the predicate and returns the remainder.

dropWhileEnd :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> ByteString #

Similar to dropWhileEnd, drops the longest (possibly empty) suffix of elements satisfying the predicate and returns the remainder.

dropWhileEnd p is equivalent to reverse . dropWhile p . reverse.

Since: bytestring-0.10.12.0

span :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> (ByteString, ByteString) #

Similar to span, returns the longest (possibly empty) prefix of elements satisfying the predicate and the remainder of the string.

span p is equivalent to break (not . p) and to (takeWhile p &&& dropWhile p).

spanEnd :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> (ByteString, ByteString) #

Returns the longest (possibly empty) suffix of elements satisfying the predicate and the remainder of the string.

spanEnd p is equivalent to breakEnd (not . p) and to (takeWhileEnd p &&& dropWhileEnd p).

We have

spanEnd (not . isSpace) "x y z" == ("x y ", "z")

and

spanEnd (not . isSpace) ps
   ==
let (x, y) = span (not . isSpace) (reverse ps) in (reverse y, reverse x)

break :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> (ByteString, ByteString) #

Similar to break, returns the longest (possibly empty) prefix of elements which do not satisfy the predicate and the remainder of the string.

break p is equivalent to span (not . p) and to (takeWhile (not . p) &&& dropWhile (not . p)).

Under GHC, a rewrite rule will transform break (==) into a call to the specialised breakByte:

break ((==) x) = breakByte x
break (==x) = breakByte x

breakEnd :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> (ByteString, ByteString) #

Returns the longest (possibly empty) suffix of elements which do not satisfy the predicate and the remainder of the string.

breakEnd p is equivalent to spanEnd (not . p) and to (takeWhileEnd (not . p) &&& dropWhileEnd (not . p)).

group :: ByteString -> [ByteString] #

The group function takes a ByteString and returns a list of ByteStrings such that the concatenation of the result is equal to the argument. Moreover, each string in the result contains only equal elements. For example,

group "Mississippi" = ["M","i","ss","i","ss","i","pp","i"]

It is a special case of groupBy, which allows the programmer to supply their own equality test. It is about 40% faster than groupBy (==)

groupBy :: (Word8 -> Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> [ByteString] #

The groupBy function is the non-overloaded version of group.

inits :: ByteString -> [ByteString] #

O(n) Returns all initial segments of the given ByteString, shortest first.

tails :: ByteString -> [ByteString] #

O(n) Returns all final segments of the given ByteString, longest first.

initsNE :: ByteString -> NonEmpty ByteString #

O(n) Returns all initial segments of the given ByteString, shortest first.

Since: bytestring-0.11.4.0

tailsNE :: ByteString -> NonEmpty ByteString #

O(n) Returns all final segments of the given ByteString, longest first.

Since: bytestring-0.11.4.0

stripPrefix :: ByteString -> ByteString -> Maybe ByteString #

O(n) The stripPrefix function takes two ByteStrings and returns Just the remainder of the second iff the first is its prefix, and otherwise Nothing.

Since: bytestring-0.10.8.0

stripSuffix :: ByteString -> ByteString -> Maybe ByteString #

O(n) The stripSuffix function takes two ByteStrings and returns Just the remainder of the second iff the first is its suffix, and otherwise Nothing.

Breaking into many substrings

split :: Word8 -> ByteString -> [ByteString] #

O(n) Break a ByteString into pieces separated by the byte argument, consuming the delimiter. I.e.

split 10  "a\nb\nd\ne" == ["a","b","d","e"]   -- fromEnum '\n' == 10
split 97  "aXaXaXa"    == ["","X","X","X",""] -- fromEnum 'a' == 97
split 120 "x"          == ["",""]             -- fromEnum 'x' == 120
split undefined ""     == []                  -- and not [""]

and

intercalate [c] . split c == id
split == splitWith . (==)

As for all splitting functions in this library, this function does not copy the substrings, it just constructs new ByteStrings that are slices of the original.

splitWith :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> [ByteString] #

O(n) Splits a ByteString into components delimited by separators, where the predicate returns True for a separator element. The resulting components do not contain the separators. Two adjacent separators result in an empty component in the output. eg.

splitWith (==97) "aabbaca" == ["","","bb","c",""] -- fromEnum 'a' == 97
splitWith undefined ""     == []                  -- and not [""]

Predicates

isPrefixOf :: ByteString -> ByteString -> Bool #

O(n) The isPrefixOf function takes two ByteStrings and returns True if the first is a prefix of the second.

isSuffixOf :: ByteString -> ByteString -> Bool #

O(n) The isSuffixOf function takes two ByteStrings and returns True iff the first is a suffix of the second.

The following holds:

isSuffixOf x y == reverse x `isPrefixOf` reverse y

However, the real implementation uses memcmp to compare the end of the string only, with no reverse required..

isInfixOf :: ByteString -> ByteString -> Bool #

Check whether one string is a substring of another.

Encoding validation

isValidUtf8 :: ByteString -> Bool #

O(n) Check whether a ByteString represents valid UTF-8.

Since: bytestring-0.11.2.0

Search for arbitrary substrings

breakSubstring #

Arguments

:: ByteString

String to search for

-> ByteString

String to search in

-> (ByteString, ByteString)

Head and tail of string broken at substring

Break a string on a substring, returning a pair of the part of the string prior to the match, and the rest of the string.

The following relationships hold:

break (== c) l == breakSubstring (singleton c) l

For example, to tokenise a string, dropping delimiters:

tokenise x y = h : if null t then [] else tokenise x (drop (length x) t)
    where (h,t) = breakSubstring x y

To skip to the first occurrence of a string:

snd (breakSubstring x y)

To take the parts of a string before a delimiter:

fst (breakSubstring x y)

Note that calling `breakSubstring x` does some preprocessing work, so you should avoid unnecessarily duplicating breakSubstring calls with the same pattern.

Searching ByteStrings

Searching by equality

elem :: Word8 -> ByteString -> Bool #

O(n) elem is the ByteString membership predicate.

notElem :: Word8 -> ByteString -> Bool #

O(n) notElem is the inverse of elem

Searching with a predicate

find :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> Maybe Word8 #

O(n) The find function takes a predicate and a ByteString, and returns the first element in matching the predicate, or Nothing if there is no such element.

find f p = case findIndex f p of Just n -> Just (p ! n) ; _ -> Nothing

filter :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> ByteString #

O(n) filter, applied to a predicate and a ByteString, returns a ByteString containing those characters that satisfy the predicate.

partition :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> (ByteString, ByteString) #

O(n) The partition function takes a predicate a ByteString and returns the pair of ByteStrings with elements which do and do not satisfy the predicate, respectively; i.e.,

partition p bs == (filter p xs, filter (not . p) xs)

Indexing ByteStrings

index :: HasCallStack => ByteString -> Int -> Word8 #

O(1) ByteString index (subscript) operator, starting from 0.

This is a partial function, consider using indexMaybe instead.

indexMaybe :: ByteString -> Int -> Maybe Word8 #

O(1) ByteString index, starting from 0, that returns Just if:

0 <= n < length bs

Since: bytestring-0.11.0.0

(!?) :: ByteString -> Int -> Maybe Word8 #

O(1) ByteString index, starting from 0, that returns Just if:

0 <= n < length bs

Since: bytestring-0.11.0.0

elemIndex :: Word8 -> ByteString -> Maybe Int #

O(n) The elemIndex function returns the index of the first element in the given ByteString which is equal to the query element, or Nothing if there is no such element. This implementation uses memchr(3).

elemIndices :: Word8 -> ByteString -> [Int] #

O(n) The elemIndices function extends elemIndex, by returning the indices of all elements equal to the query element, in ascending order. This implementation uses memchr(3).

elemIndexEnd :: Word8 -> ByteString -> Maybe Int #

O(n) The elemIndexEnd function returns the last index of the element in the given ByteString which is equal to the query element, or Nothing if there is no such element. The following holds:

elemIndexEnd c xs = case elemIndex c (reverse xs) of
  Nothing -> Nothing
  Just i  -> Just (length xs - 1 - i)

findIndex :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> Maybe Int #

O(n) The findIndex function takes a predicate and a ByteString and returns the index of the first element in the ByteString satisfying the predicate.

findIndices :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> [Int] #

O(n) The findIndices function extends findIndex, by returning the indices of all elements satisfying the predicate, in ascending order.

findIndexEnd :: (Word8 -> Bool) -> ByteString -> Maybe Int #

O(n) The findIndexEnd function takes a predicate and a ByteString and returns the index of the last element in the ByteString satisfying the predicate.

Since: bytestring-0.10.12.0

count :: Word8 -> ByteString -> Int #

count returns the number of times its argument appears in the ByteString

count = length . elemIndices

But more efficiently than using length on the intermediate list.

Zipping and unzipping ByteStrings

zip :: ByteString -> ByteString -> [(Word8, Word8)] #

O(n) zip takes two ByteStrings and returns a list of corresponding pairs of bytes. If one input ByteString is short, excess elements of the longer ByteString are discarded. This is equivalent to a pair of unpack operations.

zipWith :: (Word8 -> Word8 -> a) -> ByteString -> ByteString -> [a] #

zipWith generalises zip by zipping with the function given as the first argument, instead of a tupling function. For example, zipWith (+) is applied to two ByteStrings to produce the list of corresponding sums.

packZipWith :: (Word8 -> Word8 -> Word8) -> ByteString -> ByteString -> ByteString #

A specialised version of zipWith for the common case of a simultaneous map over two ByteStrings, to build a 3rd.

Since: bytestring-0.11.1.0

unzip :: [(Word8, Word8)] -> (ByteString, ByteString) #

O(n) unzip transforms a list of pairs of bytes into a pair of ByteStrings. Note that this performs two pack operations.

Ordered ByteStrings

sort :: ByteString -> ByteString #

O(n) Sort a ByteString efficiently, using counting sort.

Low level conversions

Copying ByteStrings

copy :: ByteString -> ByteString #

O(n) Make a copy of the ByteString with its own storage. This is mainly useful to allow the rest of the data pointed to by the ByteString to be garbage collected, for example if a large string has been read in, and only a small part of it is needed in the rest of the program.

Packing CStrings and pointers

I/O with ByteStrings

Standard input and output

Files

I/O with Handles