[Haskell-cafe] Re: Function to find a substring

2010-06-08 Thread Paul R
What's an elegant definition of a Haskell function that takes two strings and returns Nothing in case the first string isn't a substring of the first, or Just i, where i is the index number of the position within the first string where the second string begins? my quick take, with Maybe and

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Function to find a substring

2010-06-08 Thread Jon Fairbairn
R J rj248...@hotmail.com writes: What's an elegant definition of a Haskell function that takes two strings and returns Nothing in case the first string isn't a substring of the first, or Just i, where i is the index number of the position within the first string where the second string