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Anyway,
I ran across this problem, how do you delet or remove a letter from a string. Lets say that my string is-
string = "open sesame"
I want to remove the "n" in the string above. (letter 3 in string)
how do i do this
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Anyway,
I ran across this problem, how do you delet or remove a letter from a string. Lets say that my string is-
string = "open sesame"
I want to remove the "n" in the string above. (letter 3 in string)
how do i do this
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Do you want to remove it by by index (3) or value ('n')?
To remove by index, you could do
which will give good results even if len(s) < 4.
If you want to remove by value, you could do
(which will clobber all 'n's)
Jeff
To remove by index, you could do
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which will give good results even if len(s) < 4.
If you want to remove by value, you could do
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(which will clobber all 'n's)
Jeff
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If you just want to remove the first 'n' use:
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