Re: [Haskell-cafe] String to Double conversion in Haskell

dmehrtash:

I am trying to convert a string to a float. It seems that Data.ByteString library only supports readInt. After some googling I came accross a possibloe implementation: [1]http://sequence.svcs.cs.pdx.edu/node/373

Use the bytstring-lexing library, http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring-lexing Which provides a copying and non-copying lexer for doubles, readDouble :: ByteString -> Maybe (Double, ByteString) unsafeReadDouble :: ByteString -> Maybe (Double, ByteString) -- Don