How can I remove the first line of a multi-line string? (SOLVED)

[Anthony Papillion]

On 09/02/2013 11:12 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I have a multi-line string and I need to remove the very first line from
>> it. How can I do that? I looked at StringIO but I can't seem to figure
>> out how to properly use it to remove the first line. Basically, I want
>> to toss the first line but keep everything else.  Can anyone put me on
>> the right path? I know it is probably easy but I'm still learning Python
>> and don't have all the string functions down yet.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anthony
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> 
> Use split() and join() methods of strings, along with slicing.  Like this:
> 
>     fullstring = """foo
>     bar
>     baz"""
> 
>     sansfirstline = '\n'.join(fullstring.split('\n')[1:])
> 
> The last line does this:
> 1. fullstring.split('\n') turns it into a list of ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
> 2. the [1:] slice removes the first element, making it ['bar', 'baz']
> 3. Finally, '\n'.join() turns the list into a string separated by
> newlines ("""bar
> baz""")

This, of course, worked like a charm. I really need to study the string
methods. In the work I'm doing they are going to come in very handy.
Thank you, Chris!

Anthony