Hi Yitz,
I tried "evaluate" before posting my question, and for some reason it didn't
change the behavior. But strict bytestrings worked. I haven't tried Text
yet.
It was a pain putting "map (chr . fromIntegral)" in front of everything to
get
regular strings.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Yitzchak Gale
To solve the problem when using readFile from the Prelude, you would need to make sure that each file is read all the way to the end as you go along. One trick sometimes used for that is to use the evaluate function from Control.Exception to force evaluation of the length of each file:
b <- readFile s evaluate $ length b ...
That would cause the entire contents of the file to be read into memory immediately and the file to be closed, like the behavior of readFile for strict ByteString and strict Text.
-Yitz