Hi! I'm desperately trying to read a binary file into a list of Word16s. After heavily borrowing from the http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/DealingWithBinaryData - tutorial (which accounts for the only few working lines of my code), I am still left totally lost. What I need is a piece of code that reads these Word16s and gives them to me in a way that I can apply usual functions on it - should be easy, was my first thought some hours ago... Here is my code: module BinFileReader where import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as ByteString import Data.Binary.Get import Data.Word data FileData = FileData { source_filename::String, data = [Word16] } deriving (Show) readBinaryString::FilePath -> IO ByteString.ByteString readBinaryString filename = do input_string <- ByteString.readFile filename putStrLn ((show (ByteString.length input_string) ) ++ " Bytes read") return input_string -- Problems start here: Why the hell does the next function know where its -- data come from? There are no parameters; if I wanted -- to apply another function inside readAsWord that takes the bytestring as well as -- other items, how would I do that? readAsWords::Get [Word16] readAsWords = do empty <- isEmpty if empty then return [] else do v <- getWord16be rest <- readAsWords return (v : rest) readBinaryFile::FilePath -> IO FileData readBinaryFile filename = (FileData filename raw_data) where raw_data = readBinaryString filename word_list = runGet readAsWords raw_data string_length = length word_list -- And here, it ends... I've been trying my best to find a function -- that glues all of the above together, but without any success. -- It should be so trivial, but, somehow, it isn't Any hints? Greetings! Moritz