Adding split/split' to Data.List, and redefining words/lines
with it; also, adding replace/replaceBy
Neil Mitchell
ndmitchell at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 19:11:15 EDT 2008
Hi
> What do people think of adding these?
split is sorely lacking, and definately needs to be included. However,
my version is different to yours:
split :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> [[a]]
split x [] = []
split x xs = if null b then [a] else a : split x (tail b)
where (a,b) = break (== x) xs
split '*' "hello*neil" = ["hello","neil"]
While with yours:
split '*' "hello*neil" = ["hello","*","neil"]
I much prefer mine.
Didn't the bytestring people add it, under some gise, to their
library? It should be consistent with that.
> and perhaps a better name for split'
A better name is essential. split' should be for the strict version of
split, not something quite different.
> On a secondary note, but less important than the foregoing, I'd like to add two functions: 'replace' and 'replaceBy'. They do basically what they sound like: given two items, change every occurrence in a given list of one item to another.
I commonly define:
rep :: Eq a => a -> a -> a
rep from to x = if x == from then to else x
Now you can do replace with map rep.
Still, replace and replaceBy might be useful to have.
Thanks
Neil
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