[Haskell-cafe] Generalized version of `words'?

[Dimitry Golubovsky]

Does there exist a generalized version of the `words' function i. e.
one that breaks an arbitrary list into parts by an arbitrary predicate?

splitAt is not what I need.

I had to write my own:

-- A version of words, but works with any lists on any predicate.

parts pred s = case dropWhile pred s of
                                      [] -> []
                                      s' -> w : parts pred s''
                                          where (w, s'') = break pred s'

(just by parameterizing `words' found in Data.List with a predicate 
passed as a parameter).

In case such a function already exists, what is its name?

In the opposite case, can such a function be added to the standard 
library? (or why didn't it exist?)

Dimitry Golubovsky
Middletown, CT