[Haskell-cafe] Converting [Word8] to String

Folks, How do I convert a list of bytes to a string? Cale has suggested a neat way of parsing binary packets in this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg09413.html and I'm trying to create a packet reader for a Pascal-style string where the length is the first byte and the list of characters follows. I understand that I can take the first X bytes of the byte list but how do I make this into a string? I'll probably use fast packed strings to read from the socket handle and will unpack the fps into a list of bytes for parsing. Thanks, Joel -- http://wagerlabs.com/