[Haskell-beginners] Selecting single result of function application to list

[Daniel Schoepe]

On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:07:01 +0000, Hugo Ferreira <hmf at inescporto.pt> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Apologies the simpleton question but I would like to
> know how it is done in Haskell. I have a list of values,
> and I am applying a function to each of these elements.
> The result is a Maybe. I would like to return the first
> occurrence which is not a Nothing.

You can use catMaybes from Data.Maybe:

import Data.Maybe

selectOne f = head . catMaybes . map f

Note that is a partial function; it will crash if f returns Nothing for
each element.

Cheers,
Daniel
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