Poor man's here document
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import Language.Haskell.TH.Quote | import Language.Haskell.TH.Quote | ||
| - | str = QuasiQuoter stringE | + | str = QuasiQuoter { quoteExp = stringE } |
-- Main.hs | -- Main.hs | ||
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import Str | import Str | ||
| - | foo = [ | + | foo = [str|This is a multiline string. |
It's many lines long. | It's many lines long. | ||
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-- Note we can only do single-line quotations here | -- Note we can only do single-line quotations here | ||
| - | *Str> [ | + | *Str> [str|foo bar baz|] |
"foo bar baz" | "foo bar baz" | ||
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1 Poor man's heredoc / here document
main = do doc <- here "DATA" "Here.hs" [("variable","some"),("substitution","variables")] putStrLn doc html <- here "HTML" "Here.hs" [("code",doc)] putStrLn html here tag file env = do txt <- readFile file let (_,_:rest) = span (/="{- "++tag++" START") (lines txt) (doc,_) = span (/=" "++tag++" END -}") rest return $ unlines $ map subst doc where subst ('$':'(':cs) = case span (/=')') cs of (var,')':cs) -> maybe ("$("++var++")") id (lookup var env) ++ subst cs _ -> '$':'(':subst cs subst (c:cs) = c:subst cs subst "" = "" {- DATA START this is a poor man's here-document with quotes ", and escapes \, and line-breaks, and layout without escaping \" \\ \n, without concatenation. oh, and with $(variable) $(substitution), $(too). DATA END -} {- HTML START <html> <head><title>very important page</title></head> <body> <verb> $(code) </verb> </body> </html> HTML END -}
2 Even poorer man's here-doc / here-document
If you're just looking to define a multiline string constant, you can just say:
str :: String str = unlines [ "Here's a multiline string constant.", "\tIt's not as convenient as Perl's here-documents,", "\tbut it does the trick for me." ]
You can fake interpolation with:
hereDocPraise :: String -> String hereDocPraise lang = unlines [ "The language with the best here-document support", "in my opinion is " ++ lang ++ "." ]
2.1 Disadvantages to poorer man's here-docs
- You still need to escape special characters.
- It ends with a newline whether you want one or not.
3 Quasiquoting
-- Str.hs module Str(str) where import Language.Haskell.TH import Language.Haskell.TH.Quote str = QuasiQuoter { quoteExp = stringE } -- Main.hs {-# LANGUAGE QuasiQuotes #-} module Main where import Str foo = [str|This is a multiline string. It's many lines long. It contains embedded newlines. And weird stuff: łe¶→łeđø→ħe¶ŋø→nđe”øn It ends here: |] main = putStrLn foo -- ghci Str.hs -XQuasiQuotes {- -- Note we can only do single-line quotations here *Str> [str|foo bar baz|] "foo bar baz" -}
