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How to split a DataFrame string column into two columns?

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A string is a group of characters. A string can contains any type of character including numerical characters, alphabetical characters, special characters, etc. Splitting a string means distributing a string in two or more parts. By default, a string is split with a space between two words but if we want to split a string with any other character, we need to pass the specific character inside str.split() method. Here, for splitting a string into two different columns, we are going to use str.split() method.

To work with pandas, we need to import pandas package first, below is the syntax:

import pandas as pd
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mahmoud2506
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Let us understand with the help of an example.

# Importing pandas package
import pandas as pd

# Creating a Dictionary
dict = {
    'Name':['Amit Sharma','Bhairav Pandey','Chirag Bharadwaj','Divyansh Chaturvedi','Esha Dubey'],
    'Age':[20,20,19,21,18]
}

# Creating a DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(dict)

# Display DataFrame
print("DataFrame:\n",df,"\n")

# Spliting Column "Name" into two columns 
# first name and last name
df[['First','Last']] = df.Name.str.split(expand=True)

# Display modified DataFrame:
print("Modified DataFrame:\n",df)

Output:

Example: Split a DataFrame string column into two columns

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