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any one please give me answer to construct a program for counting special characters in a string

8th Nov 2016, 3:11 PM
nayana john
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what do you mean by 'special characters'? is it some characters specified by you or it is every character that is not a digit or letter? anyway, look at regular expressions, you can do anything like this using them
8th Nov 2016, 5:29 PM
Demeth
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# a generalizable solution str_to_check="abcdef\n\tghijk" spec_chars=set() # add whatever you consider 'special' for c in range(32): spec_chars.add(chr(c)) # can use extract to see what it found extract =(i for i in list(str_to_check) if i in spec_chars) print(len(list(extract))) ===== (prints '2' in this case)
9th Nov 2016, 9:07 AM
Kirk Schafer
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aString = '123abc
amp;!?' letterNumcount = 0 charCount = 0 for i in aString: if i.isalnum(): #checks for letters and numbers letterNumcount += 1 elif not (i.isalnum() or i.isspace()): #checks character is not a letter, number, or #space charCount += 1 print('letter and number count: ', letterNumcount) print('character count: ', charCount)
9th Nov 2016, 4:23 AM
Matt Helm