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R. Clarke
R. Clarke

Reputation: 1

Method of slicing strings starting at the first blank space

I believe my professor taught us a way to begin parsing through a string at the first occurrence of a blank space (or any character for that matter) but I seem to have forgotten it. I'm trying to slice through a sentence starting at the first letter of the second word. Can anyone give me some help?

The code would receive a string similar to that shown below:

'Donald Springman 50 98.0\nKenneth Clarke 52 97.3\nRon Martin 51 95.5'

What I need to do is sort the strings by the given last names. So what I am hoping for is a way to simply bypass the first word in the string, and start parsing at the first space, therefore starting at the second word.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 904

Answers (1)

Simone Bronzini
Simone Bronzini

Reputation: 1077

If I understand what you mean is:

string = 'word1 word2 word3'
print(string[string.find(' ') + 1:])

outputs:

'word2 word3'

Upvotes: 1

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