[Haskell-beginners] Re: mayBe stuck

[prad]

On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:52:51 +0200
Jürgen Doser <jurgen.doser at gmail.com> wrote:

> But really, you are doing it the wrong way. Your code is traversing
> the list once to find sth. (the findIndex ...), and then traversing
> it again to split it (the take i ...). Why not split directly when
> you find what you are looking for?
>
ya i will think about this now that the other issue has been explained!
the way i was doing it seemed a bit funny (and i initially tried
findIndices), but couldn't see how to use the limited tools i'm aware
of.

i was wanting to do something like keep pulling characters and make a
new string until the delimiter was found

fn cs = [x | x <- cs, x /= '%'] : []

but can't figure out how to use this idea to actually cause splitting
into [String]

i also explored break and splitAt, but haven't quite worked out a
mechanism to use those, yet.

thx again for your help.


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