[Tutor] string delimiters

[Cameron Simpson]

On 03Jun2015 17:35, richard kappler <richkappler at gmail.com> wrote:
>Perhaps the better way for me to have asked this question would have been:
>
>How can I find the location within a string of every instance of a
>character such as ']'?

With the str.find method!

  s = 'a]b]c'
  pos = s.find(']')
  while pos >= 0:
    print("pos =", pos)
    pos = s.find(']', pos + 1)

Obviously you could recast that as a generator funciton yielding positions for 
general purpose use.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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