Newbie question about file input

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-08-18, Aaron Deskins <ndeskins at ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
>
>> 
>> A line without anything but whitespace characters "splits" to an empty
>> list.
>> 
>
> Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware that "\n" is whitespace. I'm still a 
> programming beginner and learning everyday! Any other whitespace 
> characters I should know about?

Usually space, carriage-return, horizontal-tab, vertical-tab,
and form-feed.  You may want to consule the documentation on
the split() string method to find out what it considers white
space.

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