On Dec 5, 10:55 am, Johny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a string of a variable length and I need to split the string > in strings of 6 characters . > But if the 6th character is not space then I must split the string > at possition before the 6th character. > > For example: > if the main string S is > > S='abcde fghc ijkl mnop' > > the result should be > abcde > fghc > ijkl > mnop > > Do you have any idea how it can be done? > Thank you > L.
That's not a great example of what you are looking for, because that result just looks like: '\n'.join(S.split()) What result would you be looking for with say: S='this is just a random sequence of letters courtesy of monkeys on typewriters.' ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
