walterbyrd wrote: > The strings start with whitespace, and have a '*' or an alphanumeric > character. I need to know how many whitespace characters exist at the > beginning of the string. >
Hi, I am new to python and just really learning but this is what I came up with. #!/usr/bin/env python def main(): s = " abc def ghi" count = 0 for i in s: if i == ' ': count += 1 else: break print count if __name__ == '__main__': main() -- Kind Regards, Anthony Irwin http://www.irwinresources.com http://www.makehomebusiness.com email: anthony at above domains, - www. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list