The split() method

The split method, as the name suggests, is used to split the input string over a particular delimiter and return a list that contains the words that have been split. We will be looking at lists in more detail shortly. For now, let's take a look at the following example, where we have the name, the age, and the salary of an employee in a string separated by commas. If we wish to obtain this information separately, we can perform a split over ,. The split function takes the first argument as the delimiter on which the split operation is to be performed:

By default, the split operation is performed over a space, that is, if a delimiter is not specified. This can be seen as follows: