Michael:
Thanks, split on would work nicely.

I probably should have backed up in my reasoning process to say that my real task is to replace a data item in a list with another altered data item in the same position, or rather in FP, create a new list with the altered item in the same place. And I need a predicate to find the name of the item I want to replace.
Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Geoffrey

On Feb 28, 2015 9:08 AM, "Michael Orlitzky" <michael@orlitzky.com> wrote:
On 02/27/2015 03:51 PM, Geoffrey Bays wrote:
> Hi.
> An elementary question here about two functions in Data.List:
>  how to use a value from findIndex which returns a Maybe Int,
> and then use that result in splitAt which takes a regular Int?

Once you understand why you can't feed a (Maybe Int) to a function that
takes an Int, throw it all away and use `splitOn` from the "split"
package instead =)

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/split-0.2.2/docs/Data-List-Split.html

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