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Remove the first few(or any amount really) of letters in a string

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alexnbryan at gmail

Aug 8, 2008, 7:52 PM

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Remove the first few(or any amount really) of letters in a string

Lets say I've got a stirng:

blah This is my string blah

I want to get rid of the blah's but keep the "This is my string." I know you
can do this with a for loop, but that is messy and a pain. So does anyone
have any suggestions on how to do this?
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tjreedy at udel

Aug 8, 2008, 7:58 PM

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Re: Remove the first few(or any amount really) of letters in a string [In reply to]

Alexnb wrote:
> Lets say I've got a stirng:
>
> blah This is my string blah
>
> I want to get rid of the blah's but keep the "This is my string." I know you
> can do this with a for loop, but that is messy and a pain. So does anyone
> have any suggestions on how to do this?

Strings are immutable. Just slice out what you want.
IDLE 3.0b2
>>> "blah This is what I want. blah blah"[5:25]
'This is what I want.'

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