Prelude System.IO> :t hPrint
hPrint :: Show a => Handle -> a -> IO ()
Observe the signature of hPrint, it takes a Handle, variable ‘a’, which derives Show class and write it to the file.
FileUtil.hs
import System.IO
main =
do
putStrLn "Enter file name (Including full path) to read"
fileName getLine
fileHandle openFile fileName WriteMode
hPrint fileHandle "Hari Krishna"
hPrint fileHandle "Gurram"
hPrint fileHandle 523169
hPrint fileHandle 12345.6
hClose fileHandle
$ cat abc.txt
First Line
Second Line
Third Line
Fourth Line
$
$ runghc FileUtil.hs
Enter file name (Including full path) to read
abc.txt
$
$ cat abc.txt
"Hari Krishna"
"Gurram"
523169
12345.6
Observe the output, hPrint overrides the existing data in the file abc.txt.
Difference between hPrint, hPutStrLn
hPrint function displays value of any printable type to the standard output device. hPrint function do this by calling show on its input first.
Technically hPrint is defined like below.
hPrint x = hPutStrLn (show x)
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