Hi I think this email would be better suited to the haskell-cafe@ mailing list, it's not really specific to Hugs, but is how to do these things in Haskell.
Before you post there however I'd read the guidelines at: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Homework_help Thanks Neil On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, napster007 <life_vs_t...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > This part is about embedding a simple query in Haskell. In this assignment > you are specifically required to exploit Haskell's predefined higher-order > functions. > You can use the following Higher Order Functions: > map, filter, zipWith, any, all, takeWhile, dropWhile > You can represent a database table with a value of this type: > data Table = Table > String --table name > [String] --field names > [[String]] --records > Suppose now we have a value Table n s z. It represents a table whose name is > n; s specifies the names of the columns in the table; and z is a list of the > records in the table. > To keep it simple, you can represent all those values using plain string > Below is the table represented in that way. The table contains data about > the top-10 Largest Countries in the world with its corresponding area given > in square kilometers. > top10 = Table > "LargestCountries" > [ "Rank","Country", "Area"] > [ [ "1", "Russia", "17,075,400"] > , [ "2", "Canada", "9,976,140"] > , [ "3", "United States", "9,629,091"] > , [ "4", "China", "9,596,960"] > , [ "5", "Brazil", "8,511,965"] > , [ "6", "Australia", "7,686,850"] > , [ "7", "India", "3,287,590"] > , [ "8", "Argentina", "2,776,890"] > , [ "9", "Kazakhstan", "2,717,306"] > , [ "10", "Sudan", "2,505,810"] > ] > > > The functionalities that you must implement are listed below: > 1. Show a table: write a function that formats a row, and then maps this > function over a table to format the table. > 2. Project a table: write a function that projects a row, and then maps > this > function over a table to project the table. > 3. Select from a table: write a function that determines whether a row > satisfies the given selection criteria, then filter the table using this > function. > Functionality 1: Show a Table > You cannot unfortunately view a table (yet), for example, try to type top10 > in hugs. Hugs will complain that it does not know how to show a table. So, > this is your first task. Write a function printTable::Table->IO() that can > nicely print a table like below: > > LargestCountries: > |Rank|Country |Area | > ------------------------------------- > |1 |Russia |17,075,400 | > |2 |Canada |9,976,140 | > |3 |United States |9,639,091 | > |4 |China |9,596,960 | > |5 |Brazil |8,511,965 | > |6 |Australia |7,686,850 | > |7 |India |3,287,590 | > |8 |Argentina |2,776,890 | > |9 |Kazakhstan |2,717,306 | > |10 |Sudan |2,505,810 | > > It will be easier if you first write: > writeTable::Table->String > which simply converts a table to a flat string, and then printTable is > simply: > printTable=putStr.writeTable > > Write your solution modularly. Small sub-functionalities which are used > repeatedly are best implemented as separate functions, so you can reuse them > in multiple places. > Functionality 2: Select Columns > The next operation you must implement is so-called projection. That is, > getting a selected set of columns from a table. Consider a function project > with the following type: > project::[String]->Table->Table > The application project fields table returns a new table consisting of only > the columns from the original table whose names is specified in fields. So, > for example, > printTable.project["Rank", "Country"]$top10 > will produce the following table: > > LargestCountries: > |Rank|Country | > ------------------------ > |1 |Russia | > |2 |Canada | > |3 |United States | > |4 |China | > |5 |Brazil | > |6 |Australia | > |7 |India | > |8 |Argentina | > |9 |Kazakhstan | > |10 |Sudan | > > Your task is to implement this function project. > Functionality 3: Select Records > The next operation is used to select rows (records) from a database. > Consider a function select with the following type: > select::String->(String->Bool)->Table->Table > The application select field p table will return a new table, containing > only the rows r from the original table such that the value of r at column > field satisfies the predicate p. > Here is an example: > printTable.select "Rank" p $ top10 where p x = read x < (6::Int) > will produce the following table: > > LargestCountries: > |Rank|Country |Area | > ------------------------------------- > |1 |Russia |17,075,400 | > |2 |Canada |9,976,140 | > |3 |United States |9,639,091 | > |4 |China |9,596,960 | > |5 |Brazil |8,511,965 | > Implement the function select. > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/How-to-print-table-data-in-a-format-and-than-query-it-tp23829287p23829287.html > Sent from the Haskell - Hugs-Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Hugs-Users mailing list > Hugs-Users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hugs-users > _______________________________________________ Hugs-Users mailing list Hugs-Users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hugs-users