How to access the nth line of a multiline variable in python

Question

Given a multiple line variables

var="""this is line 1
this is line 2
this is line 3
this is line 4"""

How can I assign to a variable a specific line, say line 2?

Possible duplicate of [How do I split a multi-line string into multiple lines?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/172439/how-do-i-split-a-multi-line-string-into-multiple-lines) — Georgy, Apr 21 '18 at 13:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 21 '18 at 12:45

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>>> var="""this is line 1
... this is line 2
... this is line 3
... this is line 4"""
>>> 
>>> line3 = var.splitlines()[3 - 1]
>>> line3
'this is line 3'

str.splitlines splits your multiline-string into distinct lines. line n will be at index n - 1.

answered Apr 21 '18 at 12:45

timgeb

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 21 '18 at 12:46

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you can try to split with "\n" char like that

>>> a = """this is line1
... this is line2
... this is line3"""
>>> a
'this is line1\nthis is line2\nthis is line3'
>>> a.split("\n")[1]
'this is line2'

answered Apr 21 '18 at 12:46

FlorentY

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 21 '18 at 12:58

You will have n-1 new line character between n lines. Suppose you have 3 lines so you have 2 new line characters.

multiple_lines ="""this is line 1
... this is line 2
... this is line 3
... this is line 4"""
ans=multiple_lines.split(“\n”)[m-1]

suppose you want to take the mth string from that multiple strings. m-1 because indexing starts from 0, so you if you want to access the 3rd element you will have to do ans[2]

How to access the nth line of a multiline variable in python

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