Data.Binary or Data.Serialize perhaps? They provide encode/decode functions for packing to binary formats: * cabal install binary * cabal install cereal http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/binary/0.5.0.2/doc/html/Data-Bin... On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:17 AM, rusi wrote:

I am not sure what would be the generic names I am asking for... examples are the nearest I can get.

In perl there is pack/unpack http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpacktut.html Likewise in python there is struct module http://docs.python.org/library/struct.html

What is/are the Haskell equivalents?

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