Dinesh B Vadhia wrote:
A text document has special character strings defined as "." + "set of
characters" + ".". For example, ".sup." or ".quadbond." or ".degree."
etc. The length of the characters between the opening "." and closing
"." is variable.
Assuming that you don't know beforehand all possible special character
strings, how do you find all such character strings in the text document?
This sounds like a homework assignment. We don't offer solutions to
homework, but are glad to help out after you have tried to write a
program and run into blocks or specific problems.
Are you studying Python? What have you learned that you could apply to
this problem?
Is the text document available as a computer file or is it on paper?
The specification is what I'd call informal rather than precise. I'd ask
the author of the specification to make it more precise. I deem this
important because endless problems arise when the user does not get what
he wanted from the programmer, architect, engineer, relationship,
you-name-it, and the reason is the supplier provided what he thought the
user wanted.
Precise specification helps ensure desired results. Even in human
relationships!
OK - what next? How do you react to what I said?
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