How to get the value of a Maybe in Haskell

Question

I\'m relatively new to Haskell and began to read \"Real World Haskell\".

I Just stumbled over the type Maybe and have a question about how to receive the actual value fr

Answer 1

This is the answer I was looking for when I came to this question:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.9.0.0/docs/Data-Maybe.html#v:fromJust

...and similarly, for Either:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/either-unwrap-1.1/docs/Data-Either-Unwrap.html

They provide functions I would have written myself which unwrap the value from its context.