Examples of attoparsec in parsing binary file formats? [closed]

Question

Previously attoparsec was suggested to me for parsing complex binary file formats. While I can find examples of attoparsec parsing HTTP, which is essentially text based, I cannot find an example parsing actual binary, for example, a TCP packet, or image file, or mp3. Can someone post some code or pointer to some code which does this using attoparsec?

Answer 1

There are few or no examples of attoparsec for parsing binary formats, as parsec-style combinator parsing is mostly for text formats, not binary formats (though there's no good reason for this).

For straight binary parsing, see Data.Binary, examples include:

• haskell-amqp
• haskell-bencode
• haskell-ieee
• haskell-dbus
• haskell-elf
• haskell-uuid

and the examples in Real World Haskell.

The main example for attoparsec at the moment is an RFC2616 parser (HTTP).

• http://bitbucket.org/bos/attoparsec/src/tip/examples/Parsec_RFC2616.hs