Exercise 07-01:

Write a program that reads two strings. Check that the second occurs inside the first one and print the starting position.

1st string: AABBEFAATT

2nd string: BE

Result: BE found in position 3 of AABBEFAATT

Answer:

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# Python From Scratch
# Author: Nilo Ney Coutinho Menezes
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# File: chapter 07/exercise-07-01.py.py
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first = input("Enter the first string: ")
second = input("Enter the second string: ")

position = first.find(second)

if position == -1:
    print(f"'{second}' not found in '{first}'")
else:
    print(f"{second} found at position {position} in {first}")
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