spam = "A B C D"
eggs = "E-F-G-H"
# the split() function will return a list
spam_list = spam.split()
# if you give no arguments, it will separate by whitespaces by default
# ["A", "B", "C", "D"]
eggs_list = eggs.split("-", 3)
# you can specify the maximum amount of elements the split() function will output
# ["E", "F", "G"]
string = 'James Smith Bond'
x = string.split(' ') #Splits every ' ' (space) in the string to a list
# x = ['James','Smith','Bond']
print('The name is',x[-1],',',x[0],x[-1])
split:
# we use split method on a str
# to remove whitespaces at begining and end of str use s.strip() first
s="ab.1e.1e3"
w = s.split('.1')
// w is ["ab","e","e3"]
# IMP see below to see how split method actually splits wrt passed substring
print("ap1oo11rv1".split("1"))
// prints ['ap', 'oo', '', 'rv', '']
// use help(str.split) in your python IDE to know split in detail.
// if .split() is called then split is done wrt successive whitespaces.
ex.1 print(" a pp p ".split())
//prints ['a', 'pp', 'p']
// .split(' ') is different
ex.2 print(" a pp p ".split())
//prints ['', '', '', '', '', 'a', '', '', 'pp', '', '', 'p', '']
join:
w=["as","3e","1"]
a='vf'.join(w)
// w neccessarily needs to be a list of strings.
print(a)
//displays string asvf3evf1
# CONCLUSIONS FROM ABOVE:
- both split and join undo the effect of each other
- we can write directly in 1 line as well:
print("QR".join("ap1oo1rv1".split("1")))
// prints apQRooQRrvQR