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Re: modifying a list

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pip7kids@gmail.com writes:

> I want to be able to modify my imported data on variable "y".

You are not really modifying it (quite rightly -- that's not how Haskell
works) but the problem is a simple arithmetic one.  Unlike most other
languages, Haskell does not have automatic type promotions when doing
arithmetic so you need to say how the multiplication of an Int by 2.6
should be done.  Presumably you want floating point multiplication so
either change

  rList :: String -> IO [Int]

to

  rList :: String -> IO [Float]

or use the utility function fromIntegral in the list comprehension:

  print ([fromIntegral x * 2.6 | x <- y])

<snip>
> This does not work ............
> import System.IO
>
> -- data.txt = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,4,3,2,3,4,5,6]
>
> main = do x <- readFile "data.txt"
> 	  y <- rList x
> 	  print (sum y)
> 	  print ([x * 2.6 | x <- y]) -- this is what I am trying to achieve
>
> rList :: String -> IO [Int]	  
> rList = readIO

-- 
Ben.

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modifying a list pip7kids@gmail.com - 2016-02-26 08:25 -0800
  Re: modifying a list Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-26 16:58 +0000

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