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.
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Steven D'Aprano
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