Use the maybe function from Data.Maybe.<div><br></div><div>maybe :: b -> (a->b) -> Maybe b -> b<br><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 April 2011 23:14, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blackcat@pro-ns.net">blackcat@pro-ns.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I've got some values in GHCi that look like<br>
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Just (Left (Blah [stuff]))<br>
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and I'd like to pull out the (Blah [stuff]) to operate on it. Is there a way to do this directly in GHCi without writing a helper function?<br>
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thanks<br>
Lee Short<br>
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