Hi everyone, I think this is a totally newbie question as i am a complete novice to Haskell. I am trying to write down a few programs using GHC in order to get used with the language. I am having some problems with a piece of code (that is supposed to return a list of lines from a text file) which I transcribe below: module Test where import IO readDataFromFile filename = do bracket (openFile filename ReadMode) hClose (\h -> do contents <- hGetContents h return (lines contents)) The question is: if i try to run this, it returns me nothing (just an empty list). Why does this happen ? When i remove the "return" and put a "print" instead, it prints everything as i expected. Thanks in advance André