like a "for loop" for a string

[B]

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:]