How to get the first word in the string

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text is    WYATT    - Ranked   855 with    0 006     XAVIER   - Ranked   587 with    0 013     YONG     - Ranked   921 with    0 006     YOUNG    - Ranked   807 with    0 007       I want to get only   WYATT XAVIER YONG YOUNG   I tried               But it gives me the    WYATT    - Ranked

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Use this regex    w       w  matches 1 to many characters    w is similar to  a-zA-Z0-9      depicts the start of a string    About Your Regex  Your regex          should be           or               if you don t want the space

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Regex is unnecessary for this   Just use some string split      1  0  or some string partition      0

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If you want to feel especially sly  you can write it as this   firstWord  rest    yourLine split maxsplit 1   This is supposed to bring the best from both worlds   optimality tweak with maxsplit while splitting with any whitespace improved reliability and readability  as argued by the author of the technique   I kind of fell in love with this solution and it s general unpacking capability  so I had to share it

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You don t need regex to split a string on whitespace   In  1   text      WYATT    - Ranked   855 with    0 006             XAVIER   - Ranked   587 with    0 013             YONG     - Ranked   921 with    0 006             YOUNG    - Ranked   807 with    0 007         In  2   print   n  join line split   0  for line in text split   n    WYATT XAVIER YONG YOUNG

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Don t need a regex  string   string find

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You shoud do something like    print line split   0

[python] How to get the first word in the string

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