On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:25:57 -0700, subhabangalore wrote: > Dear Group, > > I was looking to split a string in a particular interval, like, > > If I have a string, > string="The Sun rises in the east of our earth" > > I like to see it as, > words=["The Sun","rises in","in the","east of","our earth"] > > If any one of the learned members can kindly suggest.
Like every programming problem, the solution is to break it apart into small, simple steps that even a computer can follow. 1) Split the string into words at whitespace. words = string.split() 2) Search for the word "in", and if found, duplicate it. tmp = [] for word in words: if word == 'in': tmp.append('in') tmp.append(word) words = tmp 3) Take the words two at a time. phrases = [words[i:i+2] for i in range(0, len(words), 2)] 4) Join the phrases into strings. phrases = [' '.join(phrase) for phrase in phrases] -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list