On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Robert Clausecker <fuz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any reason, that one can't find a function that splits a list > at a seperator in the standard library? I imagined something like this: > > > splitSeperator :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> [[a]] > > splitSeperator ',' "foo,bar,baz" > --> ["foo","bar","baz"] > > Or something similar? This is needed so often, even if I can implement > it in one line, is there any reason why it's not in the libs?
See http://hackage.haskell.org/package/split The reason it's not in Data.List is because there are a bazillion different splits one might want (when I was pondering the issue before Brent released it, I had collected something like 8 different proposed splits), so no agreement could ever be reached. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
