How to get every word out of a string?

Question

I am trying to solve a problem where I need to get every word in the sentence and sort it alphabetically. I would really appreciate some help in the matter, as I don't quite have a clue about how to get every word separately inside a list so i could sort it. Thanks for your time! I have tried using a for loop to search for every space but it didn't seem to work out as I didn't have quite enough of an idea how to get the word itself out.

    if action = "sort"
        for word in text:
            if word == " ":
                pass

Use `split()`: `words = text.split(' ')` – Leistungsabfall Mar 24 '19 at 12:01 — Leistungsabfall, Mar 24 '19 at 12:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 24 '19 at 14:54

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Simply use the split method like so.

s = "your string"
lst = s.split() # would return lst = ["your", "string"]. split could take a separator parameter. s.split(“r”) -> ["you", " st", "ing"]

lst.sort() # this would sort your words

edited Mar 24 '19 at 14:54

Aykhan Hagverdili

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answered Mar 24 '19 at 12:06

marc

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 24 '19 at 12:08

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You have 2 steps to take:

Convert the string into a list of words
Sort the list from the previous step

Code

sentence = 'split this sentence'
words_list = sentence.split(' ')
sorted_word_list = sorted(words_list)

answered Mar 24 '19 at 12:08

balderman

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How to get every word out of a string?

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