[Tutor] program to find index of every occurrence of a particular word in a string

[Mark Lawrence]

On 30/10/2020 15:23, Manprit Singh wrote:
> Dear sir ,
> 
> Consider a string
> st1 = "I am a boy, i am an engineer, i am a genius"
> 
> i have to find the index of every occurrence word "am" in the string st1. i
> have written a program below:
> 
> st1 = "I am a boy, i am an engineer, i am a genius"
> w ="am"
> for i in range(len(st1)):
>      if st1.find(w, i, i + len(w)) != -1:
>          print(i)
> need to know, if this problem can be done in a more clean way ? Kindly give
> some hints so that i can rewrite it in a more clean and clear way .

I suggest that you rewrite it so that it works, e.g. in a string like 
"spam spam spam" it will find all of the "am"s. Then rewrite it again, 
starting by getting rid of the 'range(len' which is almost always a code 
smell in python.

> 
> Regards
> Manprit Singh
> 

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