Thanks all! I was able to make use of readEither to do just what I wanted.<span></span><br><br>On Tuesday, November 26, 2013, Michael Orlitzky  wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 11/24/2013 04:49 PM, Patrick Redmond wrote:<br>
&gt; Is there a variation of &#39;read&#39; which uses Maybe or Either to handle<br>
&gt; failure instead of an exception?<br>
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readMaybe:<br>
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<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.6.0.1/docs/Text-Read.html#v:readMaybe" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.6.0.1/docs/Text-Read.html#v:readMaybe</a><br>
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  Prelude&gt; import Text.Read (readMaybe)<br>
  Prelude Text.Read&gt; readMaybe &quot;Hello, World!&quot; :: Maybe Int<br>
  Nothing<br>
  Prelude Text.Read&gt; readMaybe &quot;45&quot; :: Maybe Int<br>
  Just 45<br>
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