2010/8/6 Dean Herington <heringtonlacey@mindspring.com>

At 11:42 PM +0200 8/5/10, C Gosch wrote:

Hi,
does anyone here know their way around in Parsec?
I'm trying to parse a file which contains some binary parts too.
I have been using Parsec 3.0.1 to parse the first ASCII part, but all the parsers are
returning Char type tokens, so it would not work with the binary parts ..
is there any way to do this?
I am using Text.Parsec.ByteString.Lazy.

Note that I'm new to Haskell and Parsec, and doing this within a small project that
I basically do to get a grip on Haskell (and Parsec, because it appears to be really nifty and I want to learn more about it).

Thanks for any hints,
Christian

Parsing binary parts of a file is not inherently a problem. A parser can return any type; different parsers in your application will likely return different types.

If you include some code we'll be able to help you more specifically.

Dean

You're right, I probably used the wrong words .. I meant that apparently the tokens Parsec uses are of type Char, and I would actually at some point
like to continue parsing, but using different tokens. Sorry if I still got it wrong, I'm new :) I can post some code later, as I don't have it here right now.