[Haskell-cafe] Error: Improperly terminated character constant

2008-05-11 Thread Ivan Amarquaye 

I'm writing a function dRop to accept words ending in 'es' and drop the last 
two characters i.e. 'es'.eg. mangoes - mongo but i keep on getting this error: 
Improperly terminated character constant after running this code which i have 
left below. Can i get any form of help from anyone in here...?
 
 
-
 
dRop :: String - String
dRop word = if  drop (length word - 2) word == 'es'
 then take (length word - 2) word
 else word
 
--
 
regards
 
Amarquaye.Ivan
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Error: Improperly terminated character constant

2008-05-11 Thread Johannes Laire 
Single quotes are for characters, double quotes are for strings. So
change 'es' to es.

-- 
Johannes Laire

2008/5/11 Ivan Amarquaye [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


 I'm writing a function dRop to accept words ending in 'es' and drop the last
 two characters i.e. 'es'.eg. mangoes - mongo but i keep on getting this
 error: Improperly terminated character constant after running this code
 which i have left below. Can i get any form of help from anyone in here...?


  -

  dRop :: String - String
  dRop word = if  drop (length word - 2) word == 'es'
   then take (length word - 2) word
   else word

  --

  regards



 Amarquaye.Ivan
 
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