split()
The split() function is used to break a string by a specified separator (default is space) and returns a list of strings.
# Split a string by blank space (this is the default) a="Hello, My Name is Varsha. I am a Data Scientist." a.split()
[‘Hello,’, ‘My’, ‘Name’, ‘is’, ‘Varsha.’, ‘I’, ‘am’, ‘a’, ‘Data’, ‘Scientist.’]
# Split by a specific element (doesn't include the element that was split on)
b="Hello, My Name is Varsha. I am a Data Scientist."
b.split('a')
[‘Hello, My N’, ‘me is V’, ‘rsh’, ‘. I ‘, ‘m ‘, ‘ D’, ‘t’, ‘ Scientist.’]
join()
The join() function is used to convert the list of elements into a string separated by a specific joining element.
join() method to connect the elements of a sequence into a string.
x=["We","are","learning","Python"] # join with space in between " ".join(x)
We are learning Python
x=["We","are","learning","Python"] # join with - in between "-".join(x)
We-are-learning-Python