[Haskell-cafe] Error: Improperly terminated character constant

[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...?


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

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regards

Amarquaye.Ivan
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[Johannes Laire]

Single quotes are for characters, double quotes are for strings. So
change 'es' to "es".

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Johannes Laire

2008/5/11 Ivan Amarquaye <amarqua...@hotmail.com>:

>
>
> 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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