[Tutor] Creating a list from a comma-seperated string.

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 Doug.Shawhan@gecits.ge.com wrote:

> I know this is probably very simple.
>
> I have strings of comma-seperated text that I want to split into lists.
>
> split() of course, seperates every letter. How do I tell split() to do it's
> business at the commas?

split takes an optional second argument:

no_commas_please = string.split(string_with_commas, ',')

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