marco-oweber:
There is already lines. Why not generalise it to take an additional parameter '\n' and call it split or splitBy? There are some cases where you want to split a list not on '\n'.
This comes up a lot. I thought at some time last year there'd been a long discussion about all the various flavours of 'split' that we could come up with. But then, what happened to the code? Did we not agree on a version to go into Data.List? Hacking up your own custom split (or a tokens/splitOnGlue) must be one of the most common questions from beginners on the irc channel. Even fps has a split/splitBy: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps/Data-ByteString.html#v%3Asplit http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps/Data-ByteString.html#v%3AsplitWith http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps/Data-ByteString.html#v%3Ajoin Anyone rememeber what the result of the "let's get split into the base library" movement's work was? -- Don (Moved to haskell-cafe@)