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\title{Manipulating strings}
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\frametitle{Outline}
\label{sec-1}
\begin{itemize}
\item Slicing strings to get sub-strings
\item Reversing strings
\item Replacing characters in strings.
\item Converting strings to upper or lower case
\item Joining a list of strings
\end{itemize}
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\frametitle{Question 1}
\label{sec-2}
Obtain the sub-string excluding the first and last characters from
the string \texttt{s}.
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\frametitle{Solution 1}
\label{sec-3}
\begin{verbatim}
In []: s[1:-1]
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\frametitle{Question 2}
\label{sec-4}
Given a list week, week = \texttt{week = ["sun", "mon", "tue", "wed", "thu", "fri", "sat"]}. Check if \texttt{s} is a valid name of a day of the
week. Change the solution to this problem, to include forms like,
SAT, SATURDAY, Saturday and Sat.
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\frametitle{Solution 2}
\label{sec-5}
\begin{verbatim}
In []: s in week
In []: s.lower()[:3] in week
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\frametitle{Question 3}
\label{sec-6}
Given \texttt{email} -- \texttt{info@fossee[dot]in}
Replace the \texttt{[dot]} with \texttt{.} in \texttt{email}
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\frametitle{Solution 3}
\label{sec-7}
\begin{verbatim}
email.replace('[dot], '.')
print email
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\frametitle{Question 4}
\label{sec-8}
From the \texttt{email\_str} that we generated, change the separator to be a
semicolon instead of a comma.
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\frametitle{Solution 4}
\label{sec-9}
\begin{verbatim}
email_str = email_str.replace(",", ";")
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\frametitle{Summary}
\label{sec-10}
You should now be able to --
\begin{itemize}
\item Slice strings and get sub-strings out of them
\item Reverse strings
\item Replace characters in strings.
\item Convert strings to upper or lower case
\item Join a list of strings
\end{itemize}
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\frametitle{Thank you!}
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This spoken tutorial has been produced by the
\textcolor{blue}{FOSSEE} team, which is funded by the
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\textcolor{blue}{National Mission on Education through \\
Information \& Communication Technology \\
MHRD, Govt. of India}.
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