[Haskell-cafe] Is this Parsec code idiomatic?

[Ben Moseley]

Or for a bit of variety:

selectPlus s = [cs | ('+':cs) <- lines s]

--Ben

On 4 Sep 2009, at 20:40, Martijn van Steenbergen wrote:

> Hi Serge,
>
> Serge LE HUITOUZE wrote:
>> I'm asking some advice on a small piece of code representing a
>> simplified version of a treatment I need to perform.
>> I have a line-oriented string/file, from which I want to extract
>> only a substring of those lines starting with char '+' (the detail
>> of the extraction is irrelevant here, I'll just return what follows
>> the '+').
>
> This isn't really answering your question, but I thought I'd share  
> anyway: why use Parsec to retrieve those lines? It seems a simple  
> function is a lot easier:
>
> selectPlus :: String -> [String]
> selectPlus = map tail . filter ((== '+') . head) . lines
>
> I hope this helps you.
>
> Martijn.
>
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