How to find a string in Python Strings ?

String find( ) Method

 The find() method determines if the string str occurs in string, or in a substring of string if the starting index beg and ending index end are given.

Syntax

str.find(str, beg=0 end=len(string))

Parameters

· str - This specifies the string to be searched.

· beg - This is the starting index, by default its 0.

· end - This is the ending index, by default its equal to the length of the string.

Return Value

Index if found and -1 otherwise.

Example

#!/usr/bin/python3 str1 = "this is string example....wow!!!" str2 = "exam"; print (str1.find(str2)) print (str1.find(str2, 10)) print (str1.find(str2, 40))

Result

15 15 -1

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