Length of a String

We can find the length of a string using len() function.

Example:

fruit = "Mango"
len1 = len(fruit)
print("Mango is a", len1, "letter word.")

Output:

Mango is a 5 letter word.

String as an array

A string is essentially a sequence of characters also called an array. Thus we can access the elements of this array.

Example:

pie = "ApplePie"
print(pie[:5])
print(pie[6])#returns character at specified index

Output:

Apple
i

Note: This method of specifying the start and end index to specify a part of a string is called slicing.

Slicing Example:

pie = "ApplePie"
print(pie[:5])      #Slicing from Start
print(pie[5:])      #Slicing till End
print(pie[2:6])     #Slicing in between
print(pie[-8:])     #Slicing using negative index

Output:

Apple
Pie
pleP
ApplePie

Loop through a String:

Strings are arrays and arrays are iterable. Thus we can loop through strings.

Example:

alphabets = "ABCDE"
for i in alphabets:
    print(i)

Output:

A
B
C
D
E