newbie Q: [a] -> [[a]]

[Markus.Schnell@infineon.com]

(1) Have a look at take 
(2) Have a look at break and span 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vardhan Varma [mailto:vardhan@cadence.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 5:31 AM
> To: haskell@haskell.org
> Subject: newbie Q: [a] -> [[a]]
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
>  Please help me with this:
>  I'm absolute newbie in Haskell,
>  I hope I'm posting to right forum.
> 
> (1) For  "abcdefgh" -> ["ab","cd","ef"]
> I figured this out:
>  foo (x:y:z) = ( (x:y) :(foo z))
> Now how generalize this to club 'n' chars instead of two ?
>   3 -> "abcdefgh" -> ["abc","def","gh"]
>   i.e. n -> [Char] -> [ [Char] ]  -- all except last element 
>                                   have length == n
> 
> (2) My original problem is of splitting by markers.
>     "a<b>cd<efg>hi" -> [ "a" , "b", "cd", "efg", "hi" ]
>   I'm at total loss on how to do it.
>   Any pointer will be appreciated.
> 
> --TIA
> --Vardhan
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