Re: [Haskell-beginners] show vs. Data.ByteString.Char8.unpack for ByteString

Hong, 'show' of a ByteString will put quotes around the text and lots of \ for escaping certain characters, whereas unpack will translate each byte one-to-one to a Char. Steve Hong Yang wrote:

Hi,

What is the difference between show and unpack when the function arguments are of ByteString type? I thought they are the same, but they are not interchangeable at compile time.

Thanks,

Hong

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