[Haskell-cafe] Why is there no "splitSeperator" function in Data.List

[Lyndon Maydwell]

Does the Python implementation operate on Strings, or all lists?

I think this could be quite important as many split implementations
take regular expressions as arguments. This could be quite challenging
for general lists.

That said, I would like to see some of these features in the split package.

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Iustin Pop <iusty at k1024.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:21:37AM -0500, Gwern Branwen wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Robert Clausecker <fuzxxl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Is there any reason, that one can't find a function that splits a list
>> > at a seperator in the standard library? I imagined something like this:
>> >
>> >
>> >    splitSeperator :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> [[a]]
>> >
>> >    splitSeperator ',' "foo,bar,baz"
>> >      --> ["foo","bar","baz"]
>> >
>> > Or something similar? This is needed so often, even if I can implement
>> > it in one line, is there any reason why it's not in the libs?
>>
>> See http://hackage.haskell.org/package/split
>>
>> The reason it's not in Data.List is because there are a bazillion
>> different splits one might want (when I was pondering the issue before
>> Brent released it, I had collected something like 8 different proposed
>> splits), so no agreement could ever be reached.
>
> It is curious though that the Python community managed to agree on a
> single implementation and include that in the standard library… So it is
> possible :)
>
> I also needed a split function and ended up with coding one that behaves
> like the Python one for my project.
>
> regards,
> iustin
>
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