like a "for loop" for a string

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On Aug 17, 6:03�pm, B <execra... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alexnb wrote:
> > Uhm, "string" and "non-string" are just that, words within the string. Here
> > shall I dumb it down for you?
>
> > string = "yes text1 yes text2 yes text3 no text4 yes text5+more Text yes
> > text6 �no text7 yes text8"
>
> > It doesn't matter what is in the string, I want to be able to know exactly
> > how many "yes"'s there are.
> > I also want to know what is after each, regardless of length. So, I want to
> > be able to get "text1", but not "text4" because it is after "no" and I want
> > all of "text5+more Text" because it is after "yes". It is like the yeses are
> > bullet points and I want all the info after them. However, all in one
> > string.
>
> It seems like this is the type of thing the re module would be good at.
> � But for your example, this would work too:
>
> for s in string.split('no'):
> � � �if 'yes' in s:
> � � � � �j = s.index('yes')
> � � � � �print s[j+4:]

Did you run this? Doesn't look very useful to me.

text1 yes text2 yes text3
text5+more Text yes text6
text8