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behar
10,800 PointsHow do you check where in a string the specific character is?
So i know you can do something[int] to see what letter is in that spot. But say i have the string "apple", how would i check where where the p's are in the string?
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Steven Parker
243,318 PointsStrings have a "find" method. For example: "apple".find('p') would return 1, the index of the first 'p'. To find multiple cases you'd need to call it again with a start offset. See the Python Documentation for details on all the string methods.
Strings also have a "count" method if you just want to know how many it has. "apple".count('p') would return 2.