Python Find Word in Text

Asked Jul 06 '18 at 08:37

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I am writing a Python Program where I can get the location of the word in a paragraph and the number of times the word has appeared in the paragraph included in the program. Currently, my code only outputs 2 locations of a word entered.

text = '''This is sample text to test if this pythonic program can 
serve as
an indexing platform for finding words in a paragraph. It can give 
values
as to where the word is located with the different examples as 
stated'''

find_str = input("Please Enter Word to Search: ")
x = 0
i = text.find(find_str, x)
print (i)
i = text.find(find_str, i+1)
print (i)

If I enter "as", this is the output:

Please Enter Word to Search: as
63
140
>>>

How do I make the code output all of the locations of the entered word, and additionally the number of times the word has appeared in the paragraph?

asked Jul 06 '18 at 08:37

applehacker321

This should be helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4664850/find-all-occurrences-of-a-substring-in-python – Jonas Jul 06 '18 at 08:41
https://wiki.python.org/moin/WhileLoop – Mike Scotty Jul 06 '18 at 08:42
https://www.dotnetperls.com/find-python – I_Al-thamary Jul 06 '18 at 09:02
The code is here https://onlinegdb.com/HJDVx2hGX – I_Al-thamary Jul 06 '18 at 09:02
Ok, but how do I make the code count the number of times the word has appeared? – applehacker321 Jul 09 '18 at 06:47

Python Find Word in Text

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