Examples in Python 3
"""
Transforming case
"""
# Capitalize
x = "hello"
y = x.capitalize()
print(y)
# Uppercase
y = x.upper()
print(y)
# Lowercase
x = "HeLLo"
y = x.lower()
print(y)
"""
Transforming encoding
"""
# Encode to unicode
x = "me@mail.com // 30€"
y = x.encode()
print(y)
"""
Replacing, splitting and joining
"""
# Replace parts
x = "Hello"
y = x.replace("l", "y")
print(y)
# Split
x = "I like trains"
y = x.split()
print(y) # Iterable list retured from split
# Join
x = ["So", "long", "and", "thanks", "for", "all", "the", "fish"]
separator = " "
y = separator.join(x)
print(y)
"""
Searching a string
"""
x = "Applepie"
y = x.index("pie")
print(y)
print(x[y:])
y = x.find("pine")
print(y) # Not found
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