from-text: Type class to convert from Text
This package provides class IsText a where fromText :: Text -> a,
aiming to simplify conversion from Text to other textual data types,
including ByteArray, ByteString and OsPath.
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| Versions [RSS] | 0.1 |
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| Change log | CHANGELOG.md |
| Dependencies | base (>=4.12 && <5), bytestring (>=0.12 && <0.13), data-array-byte (>=0.1 && <0.2), filepath (>=1.5 && <1.6), os-string (>=2.0.2 && <2.1), text (>=2.1.1 && <2.2) [details] |
| Tested with | ghc ==9.14.1, ghc ==9.12.2, ghc ==9.10.3, ghc ==9.8.4, ghc ==9.6.7, ghc ==9.4.8, ghc ==9.2.8, ghc ==9.0.2, ghc ==8.10.7, ghc ==8.8.4, ghc ==8.6.5 |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Author | Bodigrim |
| Maintainer | andrew.lelechenko@gmail.com |
| Uploaded | by Bodigrim at 2026-05-21T22:33:48Z |
| Category | Text |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/Bodigrim/from-text.git |
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| Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2026-05-21 [all 1 reports] |
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This package provides
class IsText a where
fromText :: Text -> a
aiming to simplify conversion from Text to other textual data types, including ByteArray, ByteString and OsPath. When converting to binary types without an associated encoding, we use UTF-8.
There is an overwhelming number of alternative packages for text conversions. To name a few in no particular order:
At the moment none of them provide conversions from Text to OsPath. I could not decide which one to contribute such function to, so decided to create a new package.