Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reading Word16, Word32, etc. from a FPS

joelr1:

Folks,

How would I implement reading of big/little-endian shorts, longs, floats, etc. from a fast packed string?

Have a look at Binary.hs. You've just got bytes in the FastStrings, so Data.Bits might help too. Binary.hs is in GHC's utils/, iirc. Possibly New Binary would also be useful (the cabalised library). Good idea btw! -- Don