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Hi --

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Sarawut Poaitwinyu wrote:

> I have working on tag system and There is information like this
>
> "important urgent project 2009"
>
> i want to seperate into word, one word at the time is okay
>
> What is the easiest way to separate those string word by word, space
> between each word might has more than 1.
>
> My idea is to use loop to check character by character that it is space
> or not, and then cut the part, but i thought it might have easier way
> that i don't know

   words = string.split

When you call split with no argument, it splits on whitespace
(including more than one character).


David

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