Strings

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There are several types of strings that can be used in Haskell programs.

Strings

String is the standard string type in Haskell; it is the same as [Char]. Strings are in Unicode.

ByteString

ByteString is a type defined in the package bytestring, available from Hackage.

There are two version of ByteStrings: lazy and strict.

Lazy ByteString

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Strict ByteString

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Data.ByteString.Char8

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Text

For a more efficient processing of text, there is Text, defined in the package text.

There are two version of Texts: lazy and strict.

Lazy Text

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Strict Text

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Links

• Performance/Strings

• Wc

• Fast number parsing with strict bytestrings

• string-conversions; this package provides a simple type class for converting values of different string types into values of other string types.

• convertible-text, a text conversion package (depricated)