How to get the value of a Maybe in Haskell

Question

I\'m relatively new to Haskell and began to read \"Real World Haskell\".

I Just stumbled over the type Maybe and have a question about how to receive the actual value fr

Answer 1

I'm new to Haskell too, so I don't know if this exists in the platform yet (I'm sure it does), but how about a "get or else" function to get a value if it exists, else return a default?

getOrElse::Maybe a -> a -> a
getOrElse (Just v) d = v
getOrElse Nothing d  = d