STRING MANIPULATION

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Chapter 3, Slide 1 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Len Function
• Displays the length of the string
string = “Awesome Python”
print (len(string))

Output:
14

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Chapter 3, Slide 2 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str Function
• Converts a number to a string
string = “I am ”
age = 30
print (string + str(age)) or print (string + ‘age’)

Output:
I am 30

NB: str or ‘ ‘ convert value 18 to string.

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Chapter 3, Slide 3 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Example 1
string = “Awesome Python”
print (string(0:6))

Output:
Awesome

NB: 0 indicates the first character A and 6 is

the seventh character e.

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Chapter 3, Slide 4 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.capitalise
• Capitalize the first letter in a string
string = “i am feeling good.”
print (string.capitalize())

Output:
I am feeling good.

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Chapter 3, Slide 5 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.lower
• Capitalize the first letter in a string
string = “ENJOY PYTHON.”
print (string.lower())

Output:
enjoy python.

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Chapter 3, Slide 6 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.count
• Count the number of occurrence of a given
word in a string
string = “i am feeling good very goog.”
print (string.count(‘good’))

Output:
2

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Chapter 3, Slide 7 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.endswith
• Checks whether a string ends with a given
word
string = “ www.mutareteachers.ac.zw”
print (string.endswith(‘.zw’))

Output:
True

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Chapter 3, Slide 8 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.find
• Finds the position of a given word in a string
string = “I enjoy computers.”
print (string.find(‘enjoy’))
Output:
2 :Exists at position 2. Starts counting at 0

string = “I enjoy computers.”

print (string.find(‘you’))
Output:
-1 :You does not exist in the string
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Chapter 3, Slide 9 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.islower
• Finds whether the string is lower case

string = “I Enjoy Computers.”

print (string.islower())

Output:
False : I, E and C are all uppercase.

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Chapter 3, Slide 10 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.isupper
• Finds whether the string is upper case

string = “ENJOY PYTHON.”

print (string.isupper())

Output:
True

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Chapter 3, Slide 11 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.strip
• Removes certain given characters in a string

string = “!!!!Hie! How are you!!!!?”

print (string.strip(‘!’))

Output:
“Hie How are you?”

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Chapter 3, Slide 12 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.Istrip
• Removes certain left characters in a string

string = “ !!!!!How are you?”

print (string.Istrip(‘!’))

Output:
“How are you?”

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Chapter 3, Slide 13 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.rstrip
• Removes certain right characters in a string

string = “Hie! How are you!!!!?”

print (string.Istrip(‘!’))

Output:
“Hie! How are you?”

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Chapter 3, Slide 14 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.replace
• Replaces certain word(s) in a string

string = “Hie! How are you!!!!?”

print (string.replace (‘Hie’, ‘Hello’))

NB: Replaces Hie with Hello

Output:
“Hello! How are you?”
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Chapter 3, Slide 15 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.split
• Separates a string into two or three
depending on whether there are spaces
between words.

string = “Lovemore Manyeruke?”

print string.split()

Output:
Lovemore Manyeruke
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Chapter 3, Slide 16 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.split cont’d
• Also used to remove certain parts of an original
string.
• For example, let’s remove the letter a from the
string:
balloon = "Sammy has a balloon.”
print string.split(‘a’)

Output:
'S', 'mmy h', 's ', ' b', 'lloon.'

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Chapter 3, Slide 17 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.swapcase
• Changes lower to uppercase and uppercase
to lowercase.

string = “I love PROGRAMMING”

print string.swapcase()

Output:
i LOVE programming

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Chapter 3, Slide 18 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Str.title
• Changes text in a string to title case.

string = “I love PROGRAMMING”

print string.title()

Output:
I Love Programming

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Chapter 3, Slide 19 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Other String Methods
• string.islower()
• string.isupper
• string.isspace
• string.isnumeric
• string.isalnum (is alphanumeric)
• string.isalpha (is alphabetic)
• string.istitle

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Chapter 3, Slide 20 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition
 Example
number = 5
letters = "abcdef“
print(number.isnumeric())
print(letters.isnumeric())

Output
True
False

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Chapter 3, Slide 21 Starting Out with Visual Basic 3rd Edition