RosettaCodeData/Task/Substring-Top-and-tail/Haskell/substring-top-and-tail-1.hs

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Haskell

-- We define the functions to return an empty string if the argument is too
-- short for the particular operation.
remFirst, remLast, remBoth :: String -> String
remFirst "" = ""
remFirst cs = tail cs
remLast "" = ""
remLast cs = init cs
remBoth (c:cs) = remLast cs
remBoth _ = ""
main :: IO ()
main = do
let s = "Some string."
mapM_ (\f -> putStrLn . f $ s) [remFirst, remLast, remBoth]