Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to get subset of a list?

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 05:47:43PM -0800, Huazhi (Hank) Gong wrote:

Like given a string list s="This is the string I want to test", I want to get the substring. In ruby or other language, it's simple like s[2..10], but how to do it in Haskell?

Use take and drop, from the Prelude: (ghci session) Prelude> "Hello world" "Hello world" Prelude> drop 3 "Hello world" "lo world" Prelude> take 7 (drop 3 "Hello world") "lo worl" Prelude>