Haskell: file handling

Following table summarizes different functions provided by Haskell to work with files.

Function	Description
openFile	Read contents of a file
readFile	Get file data as a string
writeFile	Write string to a file
appendFile	Append data to file
hClose	Closing files
withFile	Perform operation on file handle
hFileSize	Get the size of file
hSetFileSize	Truncate the file
hTell	Get current position of handle
hSeek	Change file handle position
hIsOpen	Check whether file handle is open (or) not
hIsClosed	Check whether file handle is closed or not
hIsReadable	Check whether file handle is readable or not
hIsWritable	Check whether file is writable (or) not
hIsSeekable	Check whether handle is seekable (or) not
hIsEOF	Check end of file
hGetLine	Read file line by line
hGetChar	Read a charcater from file
hLookAhead	Return next character from file
hGetContents	Get the file data as string
hPutChar	Write character to a file
hPutStr	Write a string to a file
hPutStrLn	Write a string to a file
hPrint	Write data to file

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