Strings for a newbie

[Kalle Anka]

Malcolm Wooden <mwooden <at> dtptypes.com> writes:

> I want to put a sentence of words into an array, eg "This is a sentence of 
> words"
> 
> In RB it would be simple:
> 
> Dim s as string
> Dim a(-1) as string
> Dim i as integer
> 
> s = "This is a sentence of words"
> For i = 1 to CountFields(s," ")
>   a.append NthField(s," ",i)
> next
> 
> That's it an array a() containing the words of the sentence.
> 
> Now can I see how this is done in Python? - nope!

Compare this RB code

  dim s     as String
  dim a(-1) as String
  
  s = "This is a sentence of words"
  a = s.split()

with the python code

>>> s = "This is a sentece of words"
>>> s.split()
['This', 'is', 'a', 'sentece', 'of', 'words']
>>>