#Day 10 Strings Slicing in python

String Slicing & Operations on String:

Length of a String

We can find the length of a string using len() function.

Example:

fruit = "Mango"
len1 = len(fruit)
print("Mango is a", len1, "letter word.")

Output:

Mango is a 5 letter word.

String as an array

A string is essentially a sequence of characters also called an array. Thus we can access the elements of this array.

Example:

pie = "ApplePie"
print(pie[:5])
print(pie[6])	#returns character at specified index

Output:

Apple
i

Note: This method of specifying the start and end index to specify a part of a string is called slicing.

Slicing Example:

pie = "ApplePie"
print(pie[:5])      #Slicing from Start
print(pie[5:])      #Slicing till End
print(pie[2:6])     #Slicing in between
print(pie[-8:])     #Slicing using negative index

Output:

Apple
Pie
pleP
ApplePie

Loop through a String:

Strings are arrays and arrays are iterable. Thus we can loop through strings.

Example:

alphabets = "ABCDE"
for i in alphabets:
    print(i)

Output:

A
B
C
D
E

 A code based on string slicing is given below:

fruit = "Mango"

mangoLen = len(fruit)

print(mangoLen)

# print(fruit[0:4]) # including 0 but not 4

# print(fruit[1:4]) # including 1 but not 4

# print(fruit[:5])

# print(fruit[0:-3])

# print(fruit[:len(fruit)-3])

print(fruit[-1:len(fruit) - 3])

print(fruit[-3:-1])

Thanks