module IO (
Handle, HandlePosn,
IOMode(ReadMode,WriteMode,AppendMode,ReadWriteMode),
BufferMode(NoBuffering,LineBuffering,BlockBuffering),
SeekMode(AbsoluteSeek,RelativeSeek,SeekFromEnd),
stdin, stdout, stderr, openFile, hClose, hFileSize, hIsEOF, isEOF,
hSetBuffering, hGetBuffering, hFlush, hGetPosn, hSetPosn, hSeek,
hIsOpen, hIsClosed, hIsReadable, hIsWritable, hIsSeekable, hReady,
hGetChar, hLookAhead, hGetContents, hPutChar, hPutStr, hPrint,
isAlreadyExistsError, isAlreadyInUseError, isFullError, isEOFError,
isIllegalOperation, isPermissionError, isUserError,
ioeGetHandle, ioeGetFileName ) where
import Ix
data Handle = ... instance Eq Handle where ... data HandlePosn = ... instance Eq HandlePosn where ...
data IOMode = ReadMode | WriteMode | AppendMode | ReadWriteMode
deriving (Eq, Ord, Ix, Enum, Read, Show)
data BufferMode = NoBuffering | LineBuffering | BlockBuffering (Maybe Int)
deriving (Eq, Ord, Read, Show)
data SeekMode = AbsoluteSeek | RelativeSeek | SeekFromEnd
deriving (Eq, Ord, Ix, Enum, Read, Show)
stdin, stdout, stderr :: Handle openFile :: FilePath -> IOMode -> IO Handle hClose :: Handle -> IO () hFileSize :: Handle -> IO Integer hIsEOF :: Handle -> IO Bool isEOF :: IO Bool isEOF = hIsEOF stdin hSetBuffering :: Handle -> BufferMode -> IO () hGetBuffering :: Handle -> IO BufferMode hFlush :: Handle -> IO () hGetPosn :: Handle -> IO HandlePosn hSetPosn :: HandlePosn -> IO () hSeek :: Handle -> SeekMode -> Integer -> IO () hIsOpen :: Handle -> IO Bool hIsClosed :: Handle -> IO Bool hIsReadable :: Handle -> IO Bool hIsWritable :: Handle -> IO Bool hIsSeekable :: Handle -> IO Bool hReady :: Handle -> IO Bool hGetChar :: Handle -> IO Char hLookAhead :: Handle -> IO Char hGetContents :: Handle -> IO String hPutChar :: Handle -> Char -> IO () hPutStr :: Handle -> String -> IO () hPrint :: Show a => Handle -> a -> IO () isAlreadyExistsError :: IOError -> Bool isAlreadyInUseError :: IOError -> Bool isFullError :: IOError -> Bool isEOFError :: IOError -> Bool isIllegalOperation :: IOError -> Bool isPermissionError :: IOError -> Bool isUserError :: IOError -> Maybe String ioeGetHandle :: IOError -> Maybe Handle ioeGetFileName :: IOError -> Maybe FilePath |
The monadic I/O system used in Haskell is described by the Haskell language report. Commonly used I/O functions such as print are part of the standard prelude and need not be explicitly imported. This library contain more advanced I/O features.
Two additional functions are provided to obtain information about an error value. These are ioeGetHandle which returns Just hdl if the error value refers to handle hdl and Nothing otherwise; and ioeGetFileName which returns Just name if the error value refers to file name, and Nothing otherwise.
File and directory names are values of type String, whose precise meaning is operating system dependent. Files can be opened, yielding a handle which can then be used to operate on the contents of that file.
Haskell defines operations to read and write characters from and to files, represented by values of type Handle. Each value of this type is a handle: a record used by the Haskell run-time system to manage I/O with file system objects. A handle has at least the following properties:
Most handles will also have a current I/O position indicating where the next input or output operation will occur. A handle is readable if it manages only input or both input and output; likewise, it is writable if it manages only output or both input and output. A handle is open when first allocated. Once it is closed it can no longer be used for either input or output, though an implementation cannot re-use its storage while references remain to it.
The operation hGetContents puts a handle hdl into an intermediate state, semi-closed. In this state, hdl is effectively closed, but items are read from hdl on demand and accumulated in a special stream returned by hGetContents hdl. Any operation except for hClose that fails because a handle is closed, also fails if a handle is semi-closed. A semi-closed handle becomes closed:
Once a semi-closed handle becomes closed, the contents of the associated stream becomes fixed, and is the list of those items which were successfully read from that handle. Any I/O errors encountered when a handle is semi-closed are simply discarded.
Three handles are allocated during program initialisation. The first two (stdin and stdout) manage input or output from the Haskell program's standard input or output channel respectively. The third (stderr) manages output to the standard error channel. These handles are initially open.
Computation openFile file mode allocates and returns a new, open handle to manage the file file. It manages input if mode is ReadMode, output if mode is WriteMode or AppendMode, and both input and output if mode is ReadWriteMode.
If the file does not exist and it is opened for output, it should be created as a new file. If mode is WriteMode and the file already exists, then it should be truncated to zero length. Some operating systems delete empty files, so there is no guarantee that the file will exist following an openFile with mode WriteMode unless it is subsequently written to successfully. The handle is positioned at the end of the file if mode is AppendMode, and otherwise at the beginning (in which case its internal I/O position is 0). The initial buffer mode is implementation-dependent.
If openFile fails on a file opened for output, the file may still have been created if it did not already exist.
Implementations should enforce as far as possible, locally to the Haskell process, multiple-reader single-writer locking on files. Thus there may either be many handles on the same file which manage input, or just one handle on the file which manages output. If any open or semi-closed handle is managing a file for output, no new handle can be allocated for that file. If any open or semi-closed handle is managing a file for input, new handles can only be allocated if they do not manage output. Whether two files are the same is implementation-dependent, but they should normally be the same if they have the same absolute path name and neither has been renamed, for example.
Computation hClose hdl makes handle hdl closed. Before the computation finishes, if hdl is writable its buffer is flushed as for hFlush. If the operation fails for any reason, any further operations on the handle will still fail as if hdl had been successfully closed.
For a handle hdl which attached to a physical file, hFileSize hdl returns the size of that file in 8-bit bytes (>= 1).
For a readable handle hdl, computation hIsEOF hdl returns True if no further input can be taken from hdl or for a physical file, if the current I/O position is equal to the length of the file. Otherwise, it returns False. The computation isEOF is identical, except that it works only on stdin.
Three kinds of buffering are supported: line-buffering, block-buffering or no-buffering. These modes have the following effects. For output, items are written out from the internal buffer according to the buffer mode:
Similarly, input occurs according to the buffer mode for handle hdl.
For most implementations, physical files will normally be block-buffered and terminals will normally be line-buffered.
Computation hSetBuffering hdl mode sets the mode of buffering for handle hdl on subsequent reads and writes.
If the buffer mode is changed from BlockBuffering or LineBuffering to NoBuffering, then
Computation hGetBuffering hdl returns the current buffering mode for hdl.
The default buffering mode when a handle is opened is implementation-dependent and may depend on the file system object which is attached to that handle.
Computation hFlush hdl causes any items buffered for output in handle hdl to be sent immediately to the operating system.
Computation hGetPosn hdl returns the current I/O position of hdl as a value of the abstract type HandlePosn. Computation hSetPosn p sets the position of hdl to a previously obtained position p.
Computation hSeek hdl mode i sets the position of handle hdl depending on mode. If mode is:
If hdl is block- or line-buffered, then seeking to a position which is not in the current buffer will first cause any items in the output buffer to be written to the device, and then cause the input buffer to be discarded. Some handles may not be seekable (see hIsSeekable), or only support a subset of the possible positioning operations (for instance, it may only be possible to seek to the end of a tape, or to a positive offset from the beginning or current position). It is not possible to set a negative I/O position, or for a physical file, an I/O position beyond the current end-of-file.
The functions hIsOpen, hIsClosed, hIsReadable, hIsWritable and hIsSeekable return information about the properties of a handle. Each of these returns True if the handle has the specified property, and False otherwise.
This module defines the standard set of input operations for reading characters and strings from text files, using handles. Many of these functions are generalizations of Prelude functions. I/O in the Prelude generally uses stdin and stdout; here, handles are explicitly specified by the I/O operation.
Computation hReady hdl indicates whether at least one item is available for input from handle hdl.
Computation hGetChar hdl reads a character from the file or channel managed by hdl.
Computation hLookAhead hdl returns the next character from handle hdl without removing it from the input buffer, blocking until a character is available.
Computation hGetContents hdl returns the list of characters corresponding to the unread portion of the channel or file managed by hdl, which is made semi-closed.
Computation hPutChar hdl c writes the character c to the file or channel managed by hdl. Characters may be buffered if buffering is enabled for hdl.
Computation hPutStr hdl s writes the string s to the file or channel managed by hdl.
Computation hPrint hdl t writes the string representation of t given by the shows function to the file or channel managed by hdl and appends a newline.
Here are some simple examples to illustrate Haskell I/O.
This program reads and sums two integers (default overloading resolution is used to resolve the types of x1 and x2 to be Int).
import IO
main = do
hSetBuffering stdout NoBuffering
putStr "Enter an integer: "
x1 <- readNum
putStr "Enter another integer: "
x2 <- readNum
putStr ("Their sum is " ++ show (x1+x2) ++ "\n")
where readNum :: IO Integer
readNum = do { line <- getLine; readIO line }
A simple program to create a copy of a file, with all lower-case characters translated to upper-case. This program will not allow a file to be copied to itself. This version uses character-level I/O.
import IO
import System
main = do
~[f1,f2] <- getArgs -- the ~ makes the pattern failure-free
h1 <- openFile f1 ReadMode
h2 <- openFile f2 WriteMode
copyFile h1 h2
hClose h1
hClose h2
copyFile h1 h2 = do
eof <- hIsEOF h1
if eof then return () else
do
c <- hGetChar h1
hPutChar h2 (toUpper c)
copyFile h1 h2
An equivalent but much shorter version, using string I/O is:
import System
main = do
~[f1,f2] <- getArgs
s <- readFile f1
writeFile f2 (map toUpper s)