Question

write a script that takes a colon separated list of items and outputs the item one per line to standard output without the colons

Answer 1

Separating String at a Delimiter - Python

We would take a user input string, which is separated by any specific delimiters.

A delimiter is any specific symbol separating the various things. A common delimiter is a comma, which is seen in CSV (Comma Separated Values) files.

Tabs, Spaces, Semicolons and Colons are also common delimiters.

Here, we have colon (:) as a delimiter.

We use Python's string.split(delimiter) function, where we just supply a delimiter and the function splits the strings into a list according to the delimiter.

We then simply loop over the list and display the items.

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Program

# Take user input

user_text = input("Enter a string separated by colons: ")

# Split the text at colons

items = user_text.split(":")

# Print out the items

print("The items are:")

for item in items:

   print(item)

Sample Run

$ python3 separator.py

Enter a string separated by colons: Hello:Brainly:This:is:QGP

The items are:

Hello

Brainly

This

is

QGP