Practical 8: Program that takes a multiline string as input and uses the split() function to separate the words.
Problem Statement
Write a Python program that takes a multiline string as input and uses the split() function to separate the words.
The program should:
- Accept a multiline string from the user.
- Split the string into individual words using split().
- Display the list of words.
Solution Code
# Program to use split() to split a multiline string
# Taking a multiline string input from the user
print("Enter a multiline string (press Enter twice to stop):")
lines = []
while True:
line = input()
if line == "": # Stop input when an empty line is entered
break
lines.append(line)
# Joining lines to form a complete multiline string
multiline_string = " ".join(lines)
# Splitting the multiline string into words
words = multiline_string.split()
# Displaying the list of words
print("List of words:", words)
Expected Outcome
- The program allows the user to enter multiple lines of text.
- When the user presses Enter twice, the input stops.
- The program then splits the entire text into words and displays them as a list.
Example output:
Enter a multiline string (press Enter twice to stop):
There are man people
in the world who
are living all over the globe
List of words: ['There', 'are', 'man', 'people', 'in', 'the', 'world', 'who', 'are', 'living', 'all', 'over', 'the', 'globe']
Process finished with exit code 0
Explanation
Below is the explanation of F.E. PPS Unit 3 Practical 8 solution where we have written Python program that takes a multiline string as input and uses the split() function to separate the words.
- Taking Multiline Input from the User:
- The user enters multiple lines until they press Enter on an empty line.
- Each line is stored in a list (lines[]).
- Joining Lines to Form a Complete String:
- multiline_string = ” “.join(lines) → Joins the lines into a single string with spaces.
- Splitting the String into Words:
- split() separates the string into individual words based on spaces.
- The resulting words are stored in a list.
- Displaying the List of Words:
- The list of words is printed.
Key Concepts Learned
- Multiline Input Handling:
- Using a loop to take multiple lines of text.
- Joining Strings Using join()
- Combines multiple strings into one.
- Using split() to Tokenize a String
- split() separates words based on spaces by default.
