On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:52:51 +0200
Jürgen Doser
But really, you are doing it the wrong way. Your code is traversing the list once to find sth. (the findIndex ...), and then traversing it again to split it (the take i ...). Why not split directly when you find what you are looking for?
ya i will think about this now that the other issue has been explained! the way i was doing it seemed a bit funny (and i initially tried findIndices), but couldn't see how to use the limited tools i'm aware of. i was wanting to do something like keep pulling characters and make a new string until the delimiter was found fn cs = [x | x <- cs, x /= '%'] : [] but can't figure out how to use this idea to actually cause splitting into [String] i also explored break and splitAt, but haven't quite worked out a mechanism to use those, yet. thx again for your help. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's