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Oppiskele Negative Indexation | Python String Manipulation
Data Types in Python
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Data Types in Python

Data Types in Python

1. Getting Familiar With Numbers in Python
2. Mastering Boolean Logic in Python
3. Python String Manipulation
4. Bring All the Topics Together

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Negative Indexation

You can access characters in a string using negative indexing, which starts from the end of the string.

This is especially useful when you want to get the last character or work backwards, without manually counting the total length of the string.

Syntax

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Negative indexing starts at -1. string[-1] returns the last character, string[-2] returns the second-to-last, and so on. string[-0] is the same as string[0] (first character), so it's rarely used.

Example

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document = "Invoice #34567" last_char = document[-1] print(last_char) # Output: 7
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In this case, we don't need to count the total number of characters to find the last one. We simply use -1 to get the final digit of the invoice number.

Tehtävä

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You are working with a financial record string. Use negative indexing to extract:

  1. The last character of the string;
  2. The second-to-last character.

Assign them to the variables last_char and second_last_char, respectively.

Ratkaisu

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Negative Indexation

You can access characters in a string using negative indexing, which starts from the end of the string.

This is especially useful when you want to get the last character or work backwards, without manually counting the total length of the string.

Syntax

python

Negative indexing starts at -1. string[-1] returns the last character, string[-2] returns the second-to-last, and so on. string[-0] is the same as string[0] (first character), so it's rarely used.

Example

123
document = "Invoice #34567" last_char = document[-1] print(last_char) # Output: 7
copy

In this case, we don't need to count the total number of characters to find the last one. We simply use -1 to get the final digit of the invoice number.

Tehtävä

Swipe to start coding

You are working with a financial record string. Use negative indexing to extract:

  1. The last character of the string;
  2. The second-to-last character.

Assign them to the variables last_char and second_last_char, respectively.

Ratkaisu

Switch to desktopVaihda työpöytään todellista harjoitusta vartenJatka siitä, missä olet käyttämällä jotakin alla olevista vaihtoehdoista
Oliko kaikki selvää?

Miten voimme parantaa sitä?

Kiitos palautteestasi!

Osio 3. Luku 5
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