On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:49 -0300, Atila Romero wrote:
Im trying to use parsec to split a file, using the null character as a separator. Works fine with very small files but fails if they are a little bit larger. I guess parsec is trying to parse everthing first and print the results last.
I think so.
Am I doing something wrong or parsec is just not the right tool to the job?
Right. In this case I would use lazy byte strings. module main where import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as B main = do input <- B.getContents let emails = B.split 0 input ... This lazily reads and splits into chunks using a 0 byte as separator. However this needs a fairly recent version of the 'fps' package. (In ghc 6.6 Data.ByteString and Data.ByteString.Lazy will be provided in the base package.) Duncan