Ivan Amarquaye | 11 May 13:35
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Error: Improperly terminated character constant


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 | 11 May 13:46
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Re: Error: Improperly terminated character constant

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

-- 
Johannes Laire

2008/5/11 Ivan Amarquaye <amarquaye.ivan <at> 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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