Re: [Haskell-cafe] getting last char of String

2011-01-01 Thread Jesse Schalken
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:43 PM, aditya siram aditya.si...@gmail.com wrote: -- untested and won't work on an infinite list last :: [a] - a last = head . reverse No definition for last works with infinite

Re: [Haskell-cafe] getting last char of String

2011-01-01 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011, Jesse Schalken wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com wrote: No definition for last works with infinite lists =).  Unless you make the result nullable, of course. maybeLast :: [a] - Maybe a maybeLast [] = Nothing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] getting last char of String

2011-01-01 Thread Jesse Schalken
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Henning Thielemann lemm...@henning-thielemann.de wrote: On Sat, 1 Jan 2011, Jesse Schalken wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com wrote: No definition for last works with infinite lists =). Unless you make

Re: [Haskell-cafe] getting last char of String

2011-01-01 Thread Jesse Schalken
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Jesse Schalken jesseschal...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Henning Thielemann lemm...@henning-thielemann.de wrote: On Sat, 1 Jan 2011, Jesse Schalken wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com

Re: [Haskell-cafe] getting last char of String

2011-01-01 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 19:27 +1100, Jesse Schalken wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:43 PM, aditya siram aditya.si...@gmail.com wrote: -- untested and won't work on an infinite list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] getting last char of String

2011-01-01 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 19:27 +1100, Jesse Schalken wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:43 PM, aditya siram aditya.si...@gmail.com wrote: -- untested and won't work on an infinite list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] getting last char of String

2011-01-01 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 19:27 +1100, Jesse Schalken wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:43 PM, aditya siram aditya.si...@gmail.com wrote: -- untested and won't work on an infinite list

[Haskell-cafe] getting last char of String

2010-12-31 Thread Aaron Gray
Is there an easy Haskell function that gets the last Char of a [Char] or String ? Many thanks in advance, Aaron ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] getting last char of String

2010-12-31 Thread aditya siram
-- untested and won't work on an infinite list last :: [a] - a last = head . reverse -deech On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: Is there an easy Haskell function that gets the last Char of a [Char] or String ? Many thanks in advance, Aaron

Re: [Haskell-cafe] getting last char of String

2010-12-31 Thread Matthew Steele
Sounds like you're looking for `last', which is in the Prelude. http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.1/Prelude.html#v%3Alast Cheers, -Matt On Dec 31, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: Is there an easy Haskell function that gets the last Char of a [Char] or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] getting last char of String

2010-12-31 Thread Luke Palmer
http://haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=[Char]+-%3E+Char last looks conspicuous :-) On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: Is there an easy Haskell function that gets the last Char of a [Char] or String ? Many thanks in advance, Aaron

Re: [Haskell-cafe] getting last char of String

2010-12-31 Thread Aaron Gray
On 31 December 2010 20:44, Matthew Steele mdste...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Sounds like you're looking for `last', which is in the Prelude. Yep, feeling dumb I did not try it ! Thanks, Aaron http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.1/Prelude.html#v%3Alast Cheers,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] getting last char of String

2010-12-31 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:43 PM, aditya siram aditya.si...@gmail.com wrote: -- untested and won't work on an infinite list last :: [a] - a last = head . reverse No definition for last works with infinite lists =). Cheers, -- Felipe. ___