Re: [Haskell-cafe] (Newbie Question) How to get the value of an "IO String" Monad?

You can access IO values only from within do blocks (see any tutorial, previous posts or google). It looks like this then: do= myvalue <- functionwhichreturnsIOValue dosomethingwith myvalue Due to monads you don't have to leave the IO monad this way. Oh. Have to go now. do is translated into >>= syntax, see do expansion. Hope this did help else wait for another longer answer ;-) Marc