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Re: String splitting by spaces question

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Alemu Tadesse <atadesse@sunedison.com> wrote:

> Can we use rsplit function on an array or vector of strings ? it works
> for one not for vector

> ...
> 
> I have to parse a string and splitting it by spaces. The problem is
> that the string can include substrings comprises by quotations which
> must mantain the spaces. What I need is to pass from a string like:
> 
> This is an 'example string'
> 
> to the following vector:
> 
> ["This", "is", "an", "example string"]
> 
> Which is the best way to achieve this?
> Thanks in advance!

You can use a list comprehension:

l2 = [x.rsplit(...) for x in l]

But for the original question, maybe the csv module would be
more useful: you can change delimiters and quotechars to match
your input:

    import csv
    reader = csv.reader(open("foo.txt", "rb"), delimiter=' ', quotechar="'")
    for row in reader:
        print row

Nick

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String splitting  by spaces question Massi <massi_srb@msn.com> - 2011-11-23 09:10 -0800
  RE: String splitting  by spaces question "Alemu Tadesse" <atadesse@sunedison.com> - 2011-11-23 11:31 -0600
  Re: String splitting by spaces question Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2011-11-23 17:40 +0000
  Re: String splitting by spaces question Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> - 2011-11-23 12:51 -0500
  Re: String splitting  by spaces question Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2011-11-23 12:40 -0800
  Re: String splitting  by spaces question Phil Rist <Phil_member@newsguy.com> - 2011-11-23 16:20 -0800
    Re: String splitting by spaces question DevPlayer <devplayer@gmail.com> - 2011-11-23 19:53 -0800

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