Trying to understand tuples and lists

[Karthik Kumar]

I got get this working thanks to the fst and snd function. 

Cheers
Karthik. 

--- Karthik Kumar <kaykaydreamz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, 
>     I have a list of  tuples ( characters and numbers ) . 
> 
> say, [('a', 1), ('b', 2)]
> I want to extract 'a' and 1 separately . 
> 
> (x,y) <- head  [('a', 1), ('b', 2)]
> 
>   This doesnt work but my idea is to get x contain the value 'a' and
> y
> contain the value 1 as the first tuple in the list. 
>    Which is the right way of doing this.  Thanks for your help. 
> 
> Cheers
> Karthik.
> 
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard
> http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
> _______________________________________________
> Haskell-Cafe mailing list
> Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org
> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe


__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard
http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree