Regex & String Libraries in Haskell

Question

I\'m trying to introduce Haskell into my daily life by using it to write incidental scripts and such.

readProcess is handy for getting the results of exterior commands,

Answer 1

When I was first teaching myself Haskell I found that learning to use a parser combinator library for string processing was a fantastic investment. They can do everything regular expressions can do, and much more, and writing combinator parsers is a great way to build up intuitions about type classes like monads, applicative functors, etc.

I tend to use Attoparsec these days, but Parsec is probably a better starting point because it's more widely documented and discussed, provides nicer error messages, etc.