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How do we use a delimiter to split string in Python regular expression?
The re.split() method
re.split(pattern, string, [maxsplit=0]):
This methods helps to split string by the occurrences of given pattern.
Example
import re result=re.split(r'a','Dynamics') print result
Output
['Dyn', 'mics']
Above, we have split the string “Dynamics” by “a”. Method split() has another argument “maxsplit“. It has default value of zero. In this case it does the maximum splits that can be done, but if we give value to maxsplit, it will split the string.
Example
Let’s look at the example below −
import result=re.split(r'a','Dynamics Kinematics') print result
Output
['Dyn', 'mics Kinem', 'tics']
Example
Consider the following code
import re result=re.split(r'i','Dynamics Kinematics',maxsplit=1) print result
Output
['Dyn', 'mics Kinematics']
Here, you can notice that we have fixed the maxsplit to 1. And the result is, it has only two values whereas first example has three values.
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