Getting the length of a string from a the first instance of a particular character

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The title sums it up really. I need to find the length of a string in python from the first instance of a particular character. Any help would be really appreciated. Thank you.

Have you tried anything so far? – Andrzej Bobak Nov 10 '14 at 23:49 — Andrzej Bobak, Nov 10 '14 at 23:49

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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>>> s = 'this is a test string'
>>> len(s[s.index('some_character'):])

Where some_character is the character that you're searching for.

len() documentation
Good answer for list slicing

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answered Nov 10 '14 at 23:40

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you forgot a closing parenthesis after the ' on your second line of code – deweyredman Nov 10 '14 at 23:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 11 '14 at 00:42

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You could do something like:

a = 'blahblahbalh'
b = a.find('b')
c = len(a[b:])

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 10 '14 at 23:41

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len(myStr[myStr.find('insert character here'):])

answered Nov 10 '14 at 23:41

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Getting the length of a string from a the first instance of a particular character

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