Two of the most useful methods on strings involve lists of strings. The split method breaks a string into a list of words. By default, any number of whitespace characters is considered a word boundary.
The inverse of the split method is join. You choose a desired separator string, (often called the glue) and join the list with the glue between each of the elements.
One important thing to note is that even though index methods is named the same in the context of strings and lists, they behave differently. With strings, the index method looks for a substring (or a character), and returns the first instance of that character. However, with lists, the index method looks for an element and returns the first instance of that element.