[Tutor] A string-manipulation question

[Bob Gailer]

Alan Gilfoy wrote:
> Hi. I want to learn how to "break down" a string into its component  
> words, and then process each word somehow.
>
> Is there a way in Python to separate a string into its component words.
>
> Like this:
> "I would like to convert an English string (sentence) into Pig Latin."
>
> The Pig Latin conversion I think I can handle already (if not, I'll  
> cross that bridge when I come to it.) However, what I want help on is  
> how to make each word of the string a separate value, or at least make  
> it able to index the string by word, as opposed to the standard method  
> of strings being indexed by character.
>   

"I would like to convert an English string (sentence) into Pig Latin.".split()
yields:
["I", "would", "like", "to", "convert", "an", "English", "string", 
"(sentence)", "into", "Pig Latin."]


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Bob Gailer
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