string manipulation

[sovixi]

hi,

I want to remove all the words in a string after certain point i.e. I'm looking for word "-----Original" and then I want to remove everything that fallows. How can I do this? Should I use list or maybe there are string functions that I can use?

[bartonc]

hi,

I want to remove all the words in a string after certain point i.e. I'm looking for word "-----Original" and then I want to remove everything that fallows. How can I do this? Should I use list or maybe there are string functions that I can use?

You wand to find the index and use a slice:

>>> s = "This is a test of the find function"
>>> i = s.find("test")
>>> s[:i]
'This is a '
>>>

[sovixi]

thanks, so easy and it works. I was playing with list, remove, etc. and couldn't get anywhere.

[bartonc]

thanks, so easy and it works. I was playing with list, remove, etc. and couldn't get anywhere.

You are quite welcome.