Streams of Strings

Break a string up into a stream of strings at newline characters. The resulting strings do not contain newlines.

lines = S.lines A.write

>>> S.toList $ lines $ S.fromList "lines\nthis\nstring\n\n\n"
["lines","this","string","",""]

Break a string up into a stream of strings, which were delimited by characters representing white space.

words = S.words A.write

>>> S.toList $ words $ S.fromList "A  newline\nis considered white space?"
["A", "newline", "is", "considered", "white", "space?"]

Flattens the stream of Array Char, after appending a terminating newline to each string.

unlines is an inverse operation to lines.

>>> S.toList $ unlines $ S.fromList ["lines", "this", "string"]
"lines\nthis\nstring\n"

unlines = S.unlines A.read

Note that, in general

unlines . lines /= id

Flattens the stream of Array Char, after appending a separating space to each string.

unwords is an inverse operation to words.

>>> S.toList $ unwords $ S.fromList ["unwords", "this", "string"]
"unwords this string"

unwords = S.unwords A.read

Note that, in general

unwords . words /= id