On 23/07/2010 16:43, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:22:54 pm Vineeth Rakesh wrote:
Hello all,
How to return the position of a character in a string. Say I have
str1 = "welcome to the world" if i want to return the position of the
first occurrence of "o" how to do it?
str1.find("o") will return the index of the first "o", or -1 if not
found.
str1.rfind("o") does the same, but searches from the right instead of
the left.
str1.index("o") is like find, but it raises an exception instead of
returning -1. Naturally there is a rindex as well.
For the OP and possibly others, all of these methods have optional start
and end arguments. Help for find shows:-
find(...)
S.find(sub [,start [,end]]) -> int
Return the lowest index in S where substring sub is found,
such that sub is contained within s[start:end]. Optional
arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.
Return -1 on failure.
Mark Lawrence
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