On 09/02/2013 11:12 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Anthony Papillion <papill...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I have a multi-line string and I need to remove the very first line from >> it. How can I do that? I looked at StringIO but I can't seem to figure >> out how to properly use it to remove the first line. Basically, I want >> to toss the first line but keep everything else. Can anyone put me on >> the right path? I know it is probably easy but I'm still learning Python >> and don't have all the string functions down yet. >> >> Thanks, >> Anthony >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > Use split() and join() methods of strings, along with slicing. Like this: > > fullstring = """foo > bar > baz""" > > sansfirstline = '\n'.join(fullstring.split('\n')[1:]) > > The last line does this: > 1. fullstring.split('\n') turns it into a list of ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'] > 2. the [1:] slice removes the first element, making it ['bar', 'baz'] > 3. Finally, '\n'.join() turns the list into a string separated by > newlines ("""bar > baz""")
This, of course, worked like a charm. I really need to study the string methods. In the work I'm doing they are going to come in very handy. Thank you, Chris! Anthony -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
