[Haskell-cafe] how to write a function to send a string to a tuple

Hi, Im having problems with sending a string to a tuple. My string contains integers and strings The whole string stay as ("test,dfdf",3,"dfsf") sortList2 :: String -> String sortList2 (x:xs) | x == ',' = "" | otherwise = [x] ++ sortList2 xs The above function separating each words from the string Now I need to put them to a tuple putList :: String -> (Int, String, String, Int, Int) putList (x:xs) |xs /="" = sortList2 ++ putList xs I wrote something like above. But I really have no clue how to continue. Can someone help me. It's a big help