Re: [Haskell-cafe] A common pattern

Hi

I've found myself writing code like this several times now. Is there a better way?

hGetContents might be a different way to write a similar thing: read_args h = do src <- hGetContents h let (has,rest) = span ("#" `isPrefixOf`) $ lines src return (map tail has) Of course, depending on exactly the kind of IO control you need to do, it may not work. Thanks Neil