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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ajcr/string-splitter
- Owner: ajcr
- Created: 2014-03-16T13:20:10.000Z (about 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2016-04-03T10:57:44.000Z (about 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-15T20:27:52.104Z (4 months ago)
- Language: Python
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- Size: 224 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
A neat function to split up a string of contiguous words. Very handy for [breaking up domain names](http://ajcr.net/Words-nobody-wants/), among other things.
Run the script to read in a set of words and then pass a string to the `splitter()` function. The function will return a list of the possible ways the string can be broken into English words (or whatever words are found in the `word-list.txt` file). If a string can't be split cleanly an empty list is returned.
```python
>>> from splitter import splitter
>>> splitter('splitthisstring')
['split this string']
>>> splitter('dogsandcatsandrats')
['dog sand cat sand rats',
'dog sand cats and rats',
'dogs and cat sand rats',
'dogs and cats and rats']
>>> splitter('trytosplitxyzabcohdear')
[]
```
The list of English words here, `word-list.txt`, is taken from [Curlew Communications](http://www.curlewcommunications.co.uk/wordlist.html). You can, of course, use *any* list of words in whatever language you like.