Trying to figure this problem out - Use .split() to break the available string. Assign new variable - sundaes.

I would say your close its giving you a try again, here all we need to do is just assign the variable available to sundaes and then .split(";") on available.

the way it would work is by doing:

available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white" sundaes = available.split(";")

Hi there! I wish I knew what other solutions you tried. But first, the very first line of the challenge should remain unaltered. We're assigning that string into available and now we want to split the string at the semicolons. You have provided a split, but done so on the incorrect line. Also, because your split contains no arguments, it will split on all whitespace instead of the semicolons. Here was my second line:

sundaes = available.split(";")

This takes the string inside the available variable and splits it at the semicolon. The resulting string is then assigned to the sundaes variable.

Hope this helps!

Hello Jennifer, actually I have it the same way. I just thought it was going to show it like you have it in your answer lol

Thank you Jennifer will do, that also happened to me on a different question I answered, someone had posted at the same time

Thanks so much Gregorio and Jennifer but unfortunately I'm still not coming up with the right answer. I'll move on and come back to this later.

Hi Jennifer I'm on to indexes now but I will try this later and get back to you :D

Hey Jennifer just getting back to you - yes that did work and thanks so much :D

One more question on splitting and joining which so far I obviously need more practice on - Combine the sundaes list into a new variable named display_menu, where each item in the list is rejoined together by a comma and a space (", "). Then reassign the menu variable to use the existing variable and .format() to replace the placeholder with the new string in display_menu.

If you're really brave, you can even accomplish this all on the same line where menu is currently being set.

I ended up doing this on the menu line but my solution doesn't seem to register.

Menu does not register.

available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white" sundaes = available.split(";") menu = "Our available flavors are: {}".format(" , ".join(sundaes))

:D Hey that worked. Ok so attention to detail on Splitting and Joining - got it!!! Thanks Jennifer.