like a "for loop" for a string

Colin J. Williams cjw at ncf.ca
Sun Aug 17 14:27:57 EDT 2008


Alexnb wrote:
> Okay, so lets say you have a list:
> 
> funList = [1,2,3,4,5]
> 
> and you do:
> 
> for x in funList:
>       print x
> 
> this will print 1-5
> But I am wondering is there a way to something like this:
> 
> funString = "string string string non-string non-string string"
> and
> for "string" in funString:
>       print something
> 
> I know you can't do that; but, is there a way do do something similar that
> gets the same result?

Your funString has six elements, funList 
has five.

How do you want the result to appear on 
the page?

It is possible that the % operator could 
help you.

Colin W.



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