[Tutor] finding special character string

bob gailer bgailer at gmail.com
Sun Jun 1 13:08:56 CEST 2008


Dinesh B Vadhia wrote:
> A text document has special character strings defined as "." + "set of 
> characters" + ".".  For example, ".sup." or ".quadbond." or ".degree." 
> etc.  The length of the characters between the opening "." and closing 
> "." is variable.
>  
> Assuming that you don't know beforehand all possible special character 
> strings, how do you find all such character strings in the text document?

I'd read through it, looking for periods.

If it were "cat.dog.rat.bat", I'd note that .dog. and .rat. meet the 
criteria and list them.

How would you do it?

And how does this question relate to Python?


-- 
Bob Gailer
919-636-4239 Chapel Hill, NC



More information about the Tutor mailing list