that seems like the "wrong" way check out prettyprint in the standard library On 3/9/07, Frozz wrote:

Hi Haskell ppl,

I'm trying to solve a problem that had been bothering me for a long time. I'm trying to create index and display the index in Hugs as well as an output text file.

Below is my code. In Hugs, the index managed to get displayed well with nice alignments. However, for the text file, the alignment is off. The bracket with the numbers are messy. I really don't know why this would happen.

Desired output:

Anna [1] Ben [2] Shane [3]

dispTable :: [([Int], Word)] -> String dispTable = unlines . map (\ (num,word) -> word ++ take (25 - (length word)) (repeat ' ') ++ show num)

Did i do sth wrong? Thanks in advance.

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On 09/03/07, Frozz wrote:

Hi Haskell ppl,

I'm trying to solve a problem that had been bothering me for a long time. I'm trying to create index and display the index in Hugs as well as an output text file.

dispTable is a pure function so you'll get the same result irrespective of what you do with the resulting string (ie. display it in Hugs or write it to a file). Are you _sure_ you're giving this function the same input (eg, is there maybe some extra whitespace or non-printable characters) ? - Joe