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

I started learning Haskell yesterday, so correct me if I'm wrong but:

split :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> [[a]]
split x y = func x y [[]]
    where
        func x [] z = reverse $ map (reverse) z
        func x (y:ys) (z:zs) = if y==x then 
            func x ys ([]:(z:zs)) 
        else 
            func x ys ((y:z):zs)

gives:

*Main> split ' ' "this is a test"
["this","is","a","test"]

or maybe you wanted

*Main> splitWithStr  " and " "this and is and a and test"
["this","is","a","test"]

which would be:

splitWithStr :: Eq a => [a] -> [a] -> [[a]]
splitWithStr x y = func x y [[]]
    where
        func x [] z = reverse $ map (reverse) z
        func x (y:ys) (z:zs) = if (take (length x) (y:ys)) == x then
            func x (drop (length x) (y:ys)) ([]:(z:zs))
        else
            func x ys ((y:z):zs)