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Skips zero or more white space characters. See also skipMany.

Parses a white space character (any character which satisfies isSpace) Returns the parsed character.

Parses a newline character ('\n'). Returns a newline character.

Parses a tab character ('\t'). Returns a tab character.

Parses an upper case letter (a character between 'A' and 'Z'). Returns the parsed character.

Parses a lower case character (a character between 'a' and 'z'). Returns the parsed character.

Parses a letter or digit (a character between '0' and '9'). Returns the parsed character.

Parses a letter (an upper case or lower case character). Returns the parsed character.

Parses a digit. Returns the parsed character.

Parses a hexadecimal digit (a digit or a letter between 'a' and 'f' or 'A' and 'F'). Returns the parsed character.

Parses an octal digit (a character between '0' and '7'). Returns the parsed character.

char c parses a single character c. Returns the parsed character (i.e. c).

 semiColon  = char ';'

string s parses a sequence of characters given by s. Returns the parsed string (i.e. s).

 divOrMod    =   string "div"
             <|> string "mod"

This parser succeeds for any character. Returns the parsed character.

oneOf cs succeeds if the current character is in the supplied list of characters cs. Returns the parsed character. See also satisfy.

  vowel  = oneOf "aeiou"

As the dual of oneOf, noneOf cs succeeds if the current character not in the supplied list of characters cs. Returns the parsed character.

 consonant = noneOf "aeiou"

The parser satisfy f succeeds for any character for which the supplied function f returns True. Returns the character that is actually parsed.

 digit     = satisfy isDigit
 oneOf cs  = satisfy (\c -> c `elem` cs)