tagsoup-0.14.8: Parsing and extracting information from (possibly malformed) HTML/XML documents

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Text.StringLike

Description

WARNING: This module is not intended for use outside the TagSoup library.

This module provides an abstraction for String's as used inside TagSoup. It allows TagSoup to work with String (list of Char), ByteString.Char8, ByteString.Lazy.Char8, Data.Text and Data.Text.Lazy.

Synopsis

Documentation

class (Typeable a, Eq a, IsString a) => StringLike a where Source #

A class to generalise TagSoup parsing over many types of string-like types. Examples are given for the String type.

Methods

empty :: a Source #

empty = ""

cons :: Char -> a -> a Source #

cons = (:)

uncons :: a -> Maybe (Char, a) Source #

uncons []     = Nothing
uncons (x:xs) = Just (x, xs)

toString :: a -> String Source #

toString = id

fromChar :: Char -> a Source #

fromChar = return

strConcat :: [a] -> a Source #

strConcat = concat

strNull :: a -> Bool Source #

strNull = null

append :: a -> a -> a Source #

append = (++)

strMap :: (Char -> Char) -> a -> a Source #

strMap = map
Instances
StringLike String Source # 
Instance details

Defined in Text.StringLike

StringLike ByteString Source # 
Instance details

Defined in Text.StringLike

StringLike ByteString Source # 
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Defined in Text.StringLike

StringLike Text Source # 
Instance details

Defined in Text.StringLike

StringLike Text Source # 
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Defined in Text.StringLike

castString :: (StringLike a, StringLike b) => a -> b Source #

Convert a String from one type to another.