Hello, i'm trying to manipulate lists with a "complex" (two-level) structure : a list containing tuples, containing a list containing tuples. The object is to find a specific value according to 2 criterias. Here is my code tabmul= [ ( a, [ ( n, n*a ) | n <- [1..9] ] ) | a <- [2,3,4] ] {- gives the following list [ (2, [(1,2), (2,4), ....(9,18)]), (3, [(1,3), (2,6), ....(9,27)]), (4, [(1,4), (2,8), ....(9,36)]) ] -} {- Get the result for a=3 and n=5 -} -- select level 1 tuple for a=3 s1_flt (x,_) = (x==3) s1=filter (s1_flt) tabmul -- get the list [(3, [(), () .......])] s1_liste =head(s1) -- get the tuple (3, [.....]) -- extract the level 2 list of tuples s1_tup (x,y)=y -- then tuple for n=5 s1_flt2 (x, y) = x==5 s1_soltup = filter (s1_flt2) (s1_tup s1_liste) -- [(3,15)] --finally result for 3 * 5 s1_sol1 (x, y)= y s1_sol = s1_sol1 (head s1_soltup) Perhaps the structure is not the most efficient for this example, but it may simulate records in a database. Getting the result seems really hard. Do you know a shorter way to implement this search? It probably would be simpler when i had triples (a, n ,a*n) ? Another question : the values of criterias are hard-coded. What if i would like to type in s1_sol 3 5; how to put these parameters in the expressions for filters; the filters must get the parameters of the function, in other words the function should return or generate filters ? Thanks for helping Didier.