Hi, Has anyone have experience reading from a handle using hGetContents when the handle is still open and receives input from outside? I need to do some manipulation to the contents and I can't afford to close this handle. for example, an infinite stream "abcabc..." is written from outside to this handle and I know that 'c' means the termination and I want to get "abc", "abc" and the rest coming. I have used no-buffering for my handle and have written a function,extractC to extract the string end with the terminating character c. There is one more function, keepRest to keep the remainder of the stream. However, let's say response <- hGetContents handle and the response still has "abcabc...". I know in imperative language, response can be reassigned globally. How can I do that in Haskell? This is because I want to avoid duplications and ensure the program terminates. Thanks a lot. Cheers, Gek ,-.___,-. \> , , </ ( Y ) .->-._.-<- / / \ \ ,' ( ) `. (_,' )--._.--( `._) ,-' / \ `-. (,-. ,' `.,-. )