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Splitting strings

You can “split” or tear apart strings based on a given set of characters. For example:

  teststring = "this is a test"
  result = teststring.split("t")

And at the end, result will contain the list:

  ['', 'his is a ', 'es', '']

Instead of "t", you can write any character you want. If you do not include any character, it means “split on all whitespace”:

  teststring = "  this      has a lot    of   spaces and    tabs"
  result = testring.split()

Then result contains:

  ['this', 'has', 'a', 'lot', 'of', 'spaces', 'and', 'tabs']

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