text-conversions: Safe conversions between textual types

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Safe conversions between textual types


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Versions [RSS] 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.3.1.1
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Dependencies base (>=4.7 && <5), base16-bytestring (<2), base64-bytestring (<2), bytestring (<1), text (<3) [details]
License ISC
Author Alexis King
Maintainer Alexis King <lexi.lambda@gmail.com>
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Home page https://github.com/cjdev/text-conversions
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Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/cjdev/text-conversions
Uploaded by lexi_lambda at 2022-05-02T22:33:41Z
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Readme for text-conversions-0.3.1.1

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text-conversions Build Status Hackage

This is a small library to ease the pain when converting between the many different string types in Haskell. Unlike some other libraries that attempt to solve the same problem, text-conversions is:

  • Safe. This library treats binary data (aka ByteString) like binary data, and it does not assume a particular encoding, nor does it ever throw exceptions when failing to decode. It does, however, provide failable conversions between binary data and textual data.

  • Extensible. It’s easy to add or derive your own instances of the typeclasses to use your own types through the same interface.

Here’s an example of using text-conversions to convert between textual types:

> convertText ("hello" :: String) :: Text
"hello"

And here’s an example of converting from UTF-8 encoded binary data to a textual format:

> decodeConvertText (UTF8 ("hello" :: ByteString)) :: Maybe Text
Just "hello"
> decodeConvertText (UTF8 ("\xc3\x28" :: ByteString)) :: Maybe Text
Nothing

For more details, see the documentation on Hackage.