Hello jeff, Saturday, June 24, 2006, 10:19:17 AM, you wrote:
I would greatly appreciate it if someone could post a small example or two illustrating how to do binary IO in Haskell using the most widely used binary IO lib (if there is such a thing). Failing that, I would appreciate a link to some Haskell code that does binary IO that I could study.
the most widely used is NewBinary lib. but nevertheless i suggest you to use my own Streams library. it's close enough to NewBinary in overall ideology, but simpler, easy to install and may become new standard in this area because it has innumerous number of features Download: http://www.haskell.org/library/Streams.tar.gz Installation: run "make install" with my lib, binary I/O can be performed using Handles. there are just a number of new I/O operations what reads and writes words of specified size: main = do h <- openBinaryFile "test" ReadMode i <- getWord32le h j <- getWord8 h .... hout <- openBinaryFile "test" WriteMode putWord32le hout (1::Int) putWord8 hout (2::Int) ... you can use all the Handle operations (hSeek, hFilesize and so on) and even mix binary and text I/O. there are also features to define operations that read and write whole data structures library docs are still unfinished. i will send existing bits of documentation to you via email. i plan to publish final docs at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library/AltBinary but at this moment this page contains only feature list -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com