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Re: How can I remove the first line of a multi-line string?

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On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Anthony Papillion <papillion@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""")

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Re: How can I remove the first line of a multi-line string? Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 18:12 +0200

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