I have tried to figure this one out for some time now.
I want to take a large text/string and split it into phrases of 3 words, and add them to an array.
I have tried using spilt() but it dosen't work as I hoped.
What I was thinking of doinig, to get it to work:
Start with the first 3 words in the string, when I got those, I put it in an array and move 1 word and take the next 3 words and so on and so on.
Is this a bad way of doing this?
Kind regards :)
my_really_long_string = "this is a really long string"
split_string = my_really_long_string.split()
phrase_array = [" ".join(split_string[i:i+3]) for i in range(len(split_string) - 2)]
The first line just represents your string.
After that, just split on the spaces, assuming that's all you care about for defining the end of words. (@andrew_reece's comments about edge cases is highly relevant.)
The next one iterates on the range of 0 to n-2 where n is the length of the string. It takes 3 consecutive words from the split_string array and joins them back with spaces.
This is almost certainly not the fastest way to do things, since it has a split and a join, but it is very straightforward.
>>> my_really_long_string = "this is a really long string"
>>> split_string = my_really_long_string.split()
>>> phrases = [" ".join(split_string[i:i+3]) for i in range(len(split_string) - 2)]
>>>
>>> phrases
['this is a', 'is a really', 'a really long', 'really long string']
>>>