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Asked: 2026-05-25T12:58:27+00:00

Is there any way to determine an object’s numerical position in a list? That

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Is there any way to determine an object’s numerical position in a list? That is in the list [1, 2, 3, 4] 1 would have the position of 0 and in the list “Hello, World!” l would have the position of 2? I tried to make a counter that bumped up while it was reading the list, but forgot Haskell doesn’t allow variables to change. Any help is appreciated and thank you for reading

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try Hoogle for this variety of question. For example, I just tried the (wrong, it turns out) type signature [a] -> a -> Int there, and the top two results were

    elemIndex :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> Maybe Int
elemIndices :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> [Int]

    which do just what you ask. Take a look at their source if you’re curious how.

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