Python: Convert a given string into a list of words

Python String: Exercise-46 with Solution

Write a Python program to convert a given string into a list of words.

Sample Solution-1:

Python Code:

str1 = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
print(str1.split(' '))
str1 = "The-quick-brown-fox-jumps-over-the-lazy-dog."
print(str1.split('-'))

Sample Output:

['The', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox', 'jumps', 'over', 'the', 'lazy', 'dog.']                                      
['The', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox', 'jumps', 'over', 'the', 'lazy', 'dog.']                     

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Sample Solution-2:

• Use re.findall() with the supplied pattern to find all matching substrings.
• Omit the second argument to use the default regexp, which matches alphanumeric and hyphens.

Python Code:

import re
def string_to_list(s, pattern = '[a-zA-Z-]+'):
  return re.findall(pattern, s)
print(string_to_list('The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.'))
print(string_to_list('Python, JavaScript & C++'))
print(string_to_list('build -q --out one-item', r'\b[a-zA-Z-]+\b'))

Sample Output:

['The', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox', 'jumps', 'over', 'the', 'lazy', 'dog']
['Python', 'JavaScript', 'C']
['build', 'q', 'out', 'one-item']                     

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