On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:02 PM, timo verbeek <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm planning to create a human word program
>
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>
> I need help with getting the useful information how do I get the place
> if I don't now how long the string is?
>
> Boy, that is a very hard problem. Are the inputs restricted to anything?
English only? Can the human user type in *anything*?
You need to have a very, very good set of heruistics and deterministic
functions to do that.
What have you got so far?
-
Otherwise,
"How do I get the position of a known word in a string if the length if
unknown?"
>>> input = 'Give me the weather for London please.'
>>> input.find('weather')
12
Cheers,
Xav
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