In the source of Data/ByteString.hs it says that the function findSubstrings has been deprecated in favor of breakSubstring. However I think the findSubstrings which was implemented using the KMP a...

I've been making rather poor attempts at the PRIME1 problem on SPOJ. I discovered using that using ByteString really helped performance for reading in the problem text. However, using ByteString to...

How could I write a function with a definition something like... readBinaryFile :: Filename -> IO Data.ByteString I've got the functional parts of Haskell down, but the type system and monads...

I'm wanting to get the magic number from a git packfile index to ensure that it is indeed a packfile. The pack format documentation states that the magic number is "/377tOc". When I open the packfi...

I'm trying to work over big files using Haskell. I'd like to browse an input file byte after byte, and to generate an output byte after byte. Of course I need the IO to be buffered with blocks of r...

i've been trying to read a large file in haskell. I need to compress it using a custom algorithm for a university project. Everything works fine untill i start to compress big files. I extracted ...

I am trying to load a PNG file, get the uncompressed RGBA bytes, then send them to the gzip or zlib packages. The pngload package returns image data as a (StorableArray (Int, Int) Word8), and the ...

I am reading a large data stream using lazy bytestrings, and want to know if at least X more bytes is available while parsing it. That is, I want to know if the bytestring is at least X bytes long....

I'm going out of my mind trying to simply output UTF-8-encoded data to the console. I've managed to accomplish this using String, but now I'd like to do the same with ByteString. Is there a nice a...