numpy.char.split

char.split(a, sep=None, maxsplit=None)

For each element in a, return a list of the words in the string, using sep as the delimiter string.

Calls str.split element-wise.

Parameters:

aarray-like, with StringDType, bytes_, or str_ dtype

sepstr or unicode, optional

If sep is not specified or None, any whitespace string is a separator.

maxsplitint, optional

If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit splits are done.

Returns:

outndarray

Array of list objects

See also

str.split, rsplit

Examples

>>> import numpy as np
>>> x = np.array("Numpy is nice!")
>>> np.strings.split(x, " ")  
array(list(['Numpy', 'is', 'nice!']), dtype=object)  

>>> np.strings.split(x, " ", 1)  
array(list(['Numpy', 'is nice!']), dtype=object)