I am trying to write a program which checks the occurrence of a Tamil character in the line/sentence. I have written a code it checks if the character is present in the line and if so quits does not check for the second or third occurrence. Here is the code: (I have split the words into characters so I am checking with "word").
count=0
word="ஆ"
f=open('input','r')
for line in f.readlines():
if word in line:
count=count+1
print count
f.close()
the input file "input" has:
ஆ ன் டை ன்
ஆ ன் டை னி ன்
ஆ ன் டொ வி ன்
ஆ ன் ட் டா ல ஜி
எ ன் றி ஆ ன்
ஆ ன் ட் ட ன் ஆ
the current output is:
count:6
but output should be:
count:7
In the last line it checks for the word ஆ it is present in the beginning, it quits after that. I want it to check the full line and count all occurrences. how should i modify it?
Currently you are only checking whether the character is in a line at all, but not counting the occurences.
There's the count method for doing what you want: https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.count
>> 'hello world'.count('l')
3
Also, as Wooble already pointed out in his comment, you must take special care when using non-ascii characters in python2 (he provided you with the needed information).