splitting a string based on delimiter [duplicate]

Question

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How do I split a string, breaking at a particular character?

I have a string in following format

part1/part2

/ is the delimiter

now I want to get split the string and get part 1. How can I do it?

Answer 1

result = "part1/part2".split('/')
result[0] = "part1"
result[1] = "part2