Pattern matching string prefixes in Haskell

Question

Let\'s say I want to make a special case for a function that matches strings that start with the character \'Z\'. I could easily do it using pattern matching by doing someth

Answer 1

myFunc str =
  case stripPrefix "toaster" str of
     Just restOfString -> something restOfString
     Nothing -> somethingElse

This is why stripPrefix returns a Maybe type.