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Steveire · Mar 4th, 2006, 9:50 AM

Hi,

Is there some easy way to split a string by the first occurance of a certain character to make two strings?

If I use

sentence = "What is your quest?"
partOne, partTwo = sentence.split_once(' ')

I'd expect it to give me:
partOne = "What"
partTwo = "is your quest?"

I've been using things like

parts = []
parts = sentence.split(' ')
partOne = parts[0]

to do this. I figure there must be a better way. Any idea?

Dietrich · Mar 4th, 2006, 10:43 AM

The split function has options like s.split([ separator[, maxsplit]]):

sentence = "What is your quest?"
partOne, partTwo = sentence.split(' ', 1)
print partOne, partTwo

Steveire · Mar 6th, 2006, 11:46 AM

Perfect. Thanks.

Mar 4th, 2006, 9:50 AM	#1
Steveire Newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	string split_once() function? Hi, Is there some easy way to split a string by the first occurance of a certain character to make two strings? If I use (Toggle Plain Text) sentence = "What is your quest?" partOne, partTwo = sentence.split_once(' ') sentence = "What is your quest?" partOne, partTwo = sentence.split_once(' ') I'd expect it to give me: partOne = "What" partTwo = "is your quest?" I've been using things like (Toggle Plain Text) parts = [] parts = sentence.split(' ') partOne = parts[0] parts = [] parts = sentence.split(' ') partOne = parts[0] to do this. I figure there must be a better way. Any idea?

Mar 4th, 2006, 10:43 AM	#2
Dietrich Professional Programmer Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 434 Rep Power: 4	The split function has options like s.split([ separator[, maxsplit]]): (Toggle Plain Text) sentence = "What is your quest?" partOne, partTwo = sentence.split(' ', 1) print partOne, partTwo sentence = "What is your quest?" partOne, partTwo = sentence.split(' ', 1) print partOne, partTwo __________________ I looked it up on the Intergnats!

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Mar 6th, 2006, 11:46 AM	#3
Steveire Newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	Perfect. Thanks.

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