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title: String Split Method
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---
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The `split()` function is commonly used for string splitting in Python.
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#### The `split()` method
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Template: `string.split(separator, maxsplit)`
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`separator`: The delimiter string. You split the string based on this character. For eg. it could be " ", ":", ";" etc
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`maxsplit`: The number of times to split the string based on the `separator`. If not specified or -1, the string is split based on all occurrences of the `separator`
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This method returns a list of substrings delimited by the `separator`
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#### Examples
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1) Split string on space: " "
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```python
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string = "freeCodeCamp is fun."
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print(string.split(" "))
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```
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Output:
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```python
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['freeCodeCamp', 'is', 'fun.']
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```
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2) Split string on comma: ","
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```python
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string = "freeCodeCamp,is fun, and informative"
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print(string.split(","))
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```
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Output:
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```python
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['freeCodeCamp', 'is fun', ' and informative']
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```
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3) No `separator` specified
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```python
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string = "freeCodeCamp is fun and informative"
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print(string.split())
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```
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Output:
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```python
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['freeCodeCamp', 'is', 'fun', 'and', 'informative']
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```
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Note: If no `separator` is specified, then the string is stripped of __all__ whitespace
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```python
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string = "freeCodeCamp is fun and informative"
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print(string.split())
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```
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Output:
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```python
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['freeCodeCamp', 'is', 'fun', 'and', 'informative']
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```
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3) Split string using `maxsplit`. Here we split the string on " " twice:
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```python
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string = "freeCodeCamp is fun and informative"
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print(string.split(" ", 2))
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```
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Output:
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```python
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['freeCodeCamp', 'is', 'fun and informative']
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```
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#### More Information
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Check out the <a href='https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.split' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Python docs on string splitting</a>
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