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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion docs/modules.html
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<p><span class="label function">span</span> is kind of like <span class="fixed">takeWhile</span>, only it returns a pair of lists. The first list contains everything the resulting list from <span class="fixed">takeWhile</span> would contain if it were called with the same predicate and the same list. The second list contains the part of the list that would have been dropped.</p>
<pre name="code" class="haskell:ghci">
ghci&gt; let (fw, rest) = span (/=' ') "This is a sentence" in "First word:" ++ fw ++ ", the rest:" ++ rest
ghci&gt; let (fw, rest) = span (/=' ') "This is a sentence" in "First word: " ++ fw ++ ", the rest:" ++ rest
"First word: This, the rest: is a sentence"
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<p>Whereas <span class="fixed">span</span> spans the list while the predicate is true, <span class="label function">break</span> breaks it when the predicate is first true. Doing <span class="fixed">break p</span> is the equivalent of doing <span class="fixed">span (not . p)</span>. </p>
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contain if it were called with the same predicate and the same list. The
second list contains the part of the list that would have been
dropped.</p>
<pre class="haskell:ghci"><code>ghci&gt; let (fw, rest) = span (/=&#39; &#39;) &quot;This is a sentence&quot; in &quot;First word:&quot; ++ fw ++ &quot;, the rest:&quot; ++ rest
<pre class="haskell:ghci"><code>ghci&gt; let (fw, rest) = span (/=&#39; &#39;) &quot;This is a sentence&quot; in &quot;First word: &quot; ++ fw ++ &quot;, the rest:&quot; ++ rest
&quot;First word: This, the rest: is a sentence&quot;</code></pre>
<p>Whereas <code>span</code> spans the list while the predicate is true,
<code class="label function">break</code> breaks it when the predicate
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion markdown/source_md/modules.md
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The second list contains the part of the list that would have been dropped.

```{.haskell:ghci}
ghci> let (fw, rest) = span (/=' ') "This is a sentence" in "First word:" ++ fw ++ ", the rest:" ++ rest
ghci> let (fw, rest) = span (/=' ') "This is a sentence" in "First word: " ++ fw ++ ", the rest:" ++ rest
"First word: This, the rest: is a sentence"
```

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