Mitar wrote:
Hi!
I am really missing the (general) split function built in standard
Haskell. I do not understand why there is something so specific as
words and lines but not a simple split? The same goes for join.
Yes, I can of course define them but ... in an interactive mode it
would be quite handy to have them there.
Or am I wrong and are those hidden somewhere?
So what are common ways to get around this? What are elegant
definitions? Inline definitions?
As I understand it, they don't exist because nobody can agree on the
best way to define them.
For joining you probably want some combination of intersperse and
concat, e.g.
unlines = concat . intersperse "\n"
For splitting, do we split on a given character? A predicate? Do we keep
the splitting character or throw it away? Do we generate empty sublists
or elide them? Apparently nobody can agree on these points, and writing
a function with all possible options would be very messy...
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