From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2008-11-22T04:16:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Putting string values into array

On Nov 21, 1:32 pm, Stefano Crocco <stefano.cro...@alice.it> wrote:
> Alle Friday 21 November 2008, jackster the jackle ha scritto:
>
> > I have a string that contians about 20 names that are all seperated by a
> > single white space. What is the easiest way to get those 20 names into
> > an array of 20 elements?
>
> > a = "first_name second_name third_name etc"
>
> > thanks
>
> > jack
>
> a.split ' '

actually just

  a.split

is all you need.

-- Mark.