Using Maybe type in Haskell

Question

I\'m trying to utilize the Maybe type in Haskell. I have a lookup for key, value tuples that returns a Maybe. How do I access the data that was wrapped by Maybe? For exam

Answer 1

Sorry, I should have googled better.

using the fromMaybe function is exactly what I need. fromMaybe will return the value in Maybe if it is not nothing, otherwise it will return a default value supplied to fromMaybe.

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.1/Data-Maybe.html