pythonstring

Find all the occurrences of a character in a string

I am trying to find all the occurences of "|" in a string.

def findSectionOffsets(text):
    startingPos = 0
    endPos = len(text)

    for position in text.find("|",startingPos, endPos):
        print position
        endPos = position

But I get an error:

    for position in text.find("|",startingPos, endPos):
TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable
Solution

  • The function: 

    def findOccurrences(s, ch):
    return [i for i, letter in enumerate(s) if letter == ch]


findOccurrences(yourString, '|')

    will return a list of the indices of yourString in which the | occur.