How to split a string in Haskell?

Question

Is there a standard way to split a string in Haskell?

lines and words work great from splitting on a space or newline, but surely there is

Answer 1

If you use Data.Text, there is splitOn:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/text/0.11.2.0/doc/html/Data-Text.html#v:splitOn

This is built in the Haskell Platform.

So for instance:

import qualified Data.Text as T
main = print $ T.splitOn (T.pack " ") (T.pack "this is a test")

or:

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

import qualified Data.Text as T
main = print $ T.splitOn " " "this is a test"