[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why is there no splitBy in the list module?

[Evan Laforge]

2006/7/12, tpledger at ihug.co.nz <tpledger at ihug.co.nz>:
> Jared Updike wrote:
> > > "split" is... unconcatIntersperse.
> >
> > How about "separate"?  ("split" or "splitBy" is better but
> it is used
> > all over the place in many libs)
> >
> > And for strings I definitely would use split :: [a] -> [a]
> -> [[a]]  a
> > lot, just like Python's split function. And "words" works
> great for
> > breaking on multiple spaces, so I would avoid trying to
> fill that
> > need...
>
> FWIW my home-grown versions of these things are called
> fields and unfields.

Also, my version of the "split but don't drop the delimiter" is
breakAll, since it's like a recursive break.

words/unwords and lines/unlines have one argument, so a 2 argument
fielts/unfields would break that "convention".  Maybe:

fields = csv `separateWith` ","
csv = fields `joinWith` "," -- equivalent to concatIntersperse