Re: [Haskell] Parsing binary data

joelr1:

Folks,

I'm trying to parse chunks of binary data that arrive through a socket. There's a defined format of these chunks where the first 4 bytes are an id, then could come a Pascal (size first) string, then some more data.

I'm trying to figure out how to read and write Haskell data in this format and using a socket.

Would someone have examples?

Thanks, Joel

Maybe you'd like to look at the various Binary implementations? http://www.haskell.org/nhc98/libs/Binary.html You might also survive just using Data.Bits -- Don