[Tutor] Please help, the program is not behaving as I want

[Prasad, Ramit]

Start solving the problem by viewing the text around what is being returned. Look at the +- 10-100 characters from what is being returned.

Where exactly on the page is the return coming from? Is this centered near where you expected it? If not, what could be causing that? If it is actually close (and not just an error that is returning something that looks close but is actually not related) to what you want then why are the boundaries for the slice not what you expect? Play around with the boundaries and see if you can get it closer. Goldstein's second email has narrowed down some of your problems, if you cannot find it.

Since you are doing text matches, be careful of case. What if WAter is typed instead of Water or water (as Andre noted) is typed?


Ramit



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Thanks, Joel Goldstick

There is no error message.
But the program is returning incomplete or too many characters.  For example, instead of "Halal" it will return "l Hala"
or "nol" depending on the length of the word the user inputs.

Since I can't predict the words the user will search for, I'm finding it difficult to tackle the problem.
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