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Python | Ways to find the nth occurrence of a substring in a string



Method # 1: Using re

# Python code for demonstration
# find the nth occurrence of a substring

 

import re

 
# Initializing Values ​​

ini_str = " abababababab "

substr = " ab "

occurrence = 4

 

 
# Find the nth occurrence of a substring

inilist = [m.start () for m in re.finditer (r "ab" , ini_str)]

if len (inilist) & gt; = 4 :

 

# Print result

print ( "Nth occurrence of substring at" , inilist [occurrence - 1 ])

else :

print ( "No {} occurrence of substring lies in given string" . format (occurrence))

Method # 2: Using the find () method

# Python code for demonstration
# find the nth occurrence of the substring

 
# Initializing values ​​

ini_str = "abababababab"

sub_str = "ab"

occurrence = 4

 

  
# Find the nth occurrence of a substring

val = - 1

for i in range ( 0 , occurrence):

  val = ini_str.find (sub_str, val + 1 )

 
# Print n- th occurrence

print ( " Nth occurrence is at " , val)

Method # 3: Using startwith () and list comprehension

# Python code for demo
# find the nth substring occurrence

 
# Initializing values ​​

ini_str = "abababababab"

substr = "ab"

occurrence = 4

 

  
# Find the nth occurrence of the substring

inilist = [i for i in range ( 0 , len (ini_str))

if ini_str [i:]. startswith (substr)]

 

if len (inilist) & gt; = 4 :

 

# Print result  

print ( "Nth occurrence of substring at" , inilist [occurrence - 1 ])

else :

print ( "No {} occurrence of substring lies in given string" . format (occurrence))