Attoparsec provides the function takeWhile1
that consumes at least one character.
However, there is no analog for skipWhile
. How can I implement this function skipWhile1
?
Note: This question intentionally shows no research effort as it was answered Q&A-Style.
Another possible implementation:
import Control.Applicative
skipWhile1 p = skip p *> skipWhile p
This might actually be faster than @Uli's answer because takeWhile
builds a result string, whereas skipWhile
doesn't. Laziness might make them equivalent (ie. maybe takeWhile
doesn't actually build the string if you don't use it); I can't test at the moment to verify this.
You can use Control.Monad.void
together with takeWhile1
to simply ignore the result:
import Data.Attoparsec.Char8
import Control.Monad (void)
skipWhile1 :: (Char -> Bool) -> Parser ()
skipWhile1 = void . takeWhile1