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

In the module Text.Regex (part of the Haskell Platform), there is a function:

splitRegex :: Regex -> String -> [String]

which splits a string based on a regular expression. The API can be found at Hackage.