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user2837162
user2837162

Reputation:

Split Sentences of a String

HI i am trying to split a text

For example
'C:/bye1.txt'
i would want 'C:/bye1.txt' only

'C:/bye1.txt C:/hello1.txt'
i would want C:/hello1.txt only

'C:/bye1.txt C:/hello1.txt C:/bye2 C:/bye3'
i would want C:/bye3 and so on.

Code i tried, Problem is it only print out Y. 

x = "Hello i am boey"
Last = x[len(x)-1]
print Last

Upvotes: 2

Views: 117

Answers (5)

dparpyani
dparpyani

Reputation: 2503

Answer:

'C:/bye1.txt C:/hello1.txt C:/bye2 C:/bye3'.split()[-1]

would give you 'C:/bye3'.

Details:

The split method without any parameter assumes space to be the delimiter. In the example above, it returns the following list:

['C:/bye1.txt', 'C:/hello1.txt', 'C:/bye2', 'C:/bye3']

An index of -1 specifies taking the first character in the reversed order (from the back).

Upvotes: 0

lightalchemist
lightalchemist

Reputation: 10219

x[len()-1] returns you the last character of the list (in this case a list of characters). It is the same as x[-1]

To get the output you want, do this:

x.split()[-1]

If your sentences are separated by other delimiters, you can specify the delimeter to split like so:

delimeter = ','
item = x.split(delimeter)[-1] # Split list according to delimeter and get last item

In addition, the "lstrip()", "rstrip()", and "strip()" functions might be useful for removing unnecessary characters from the end of your string. Look them up in the python documentations.

Upvotes: 0

user2555451
user2555451

Reputation:

Look at this:

>>> x = 'C:/bye1.txt'
>>> x.split()[-1]
'C:/bye1.txt'
>>> y = 'C:/bye1.txt C:/hello1.txt'
>>> y.split()[-1]
'C:/hello1.txt'
>>> z = 'C:/bye1.txt C:/hello1.txt C:/bye2 C:/bye3'
>>> z.split()[-1]
'C:/bye3'
>>>

Basically, you split the strings using str.split and then get the last item (that's what [-1] does).

Upvotes: 3

user1129665
user1129665

Reputation:

Try:

>>> x = 'C:/bye1.txt C:/hello1.txt C:/bye2 C:/bye3'
>>> x.split()[-1]
'C:/bye3'
>>>

Upvotes: 1

Paul Draper
Paul Draper

Reputation: 83403

x = "Hello i am boey".split()
Last = x[len(x)-1]
print Last

Though more Pythonic:

x = "Hello i am boey".split()
print x[-1]

Upvotes: 1

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