Build an Employee Profile Generator - Step 18

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i’m stuck python certification build an employee profile generator step 18, how to resolve it, after slicing last three character?

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first_name = 'John'
last_name = 'Doe'
full_name = first_name + ' ' + last_name
address = '123 Main Street'
address += ', Apartment 4B'
employee_age = 28
employee_info = full_name + ' is ' + str(employee_age) + ' years old'
print(employee_info)
experience_years = 5
experience_info = 'Experience: ' + str(experience_years) + ' years'
print(experience_info)
position = 'Data Analyst'
salary = 75000
employee_card = f'Employee: {full_name} | Age: {employee_age} | Position: {position} | Salary: ${salary}'
print(employee_card)
employee_code = 'DEV-2026-JD-001'
department = employee_code[0:3]
print(department)
year_code = employee_code[4:8]
print(year_code)
initials = employee_code[9:11]
print(initials)

# User Editable Region

last_three = employee_code[-3:15]
print(last_three)

# User Editable Region

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Build an Employee Profile Generator - Step 18

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Just use exactly what the instructions show—that’s all you need to get the last three characters.

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I’ve done it, but it’s still not right, this the instructions

You can also use negative numbers to slice from the end of a string. For example, -1 refers to the last character, -2 refers to the second-to-last character, and so on.

To get the last three characters of a string, you can use string[-3:]. Note how the stop parameter is omitted after the colon. This means the slicing should proceed up to the string boundary.

Create a variable named last_three. Use negative indexing to extract the last three characters from employee_code (which represent the ID number). Finally, print last_three to the terminal.

With that, the employee card workshop is complete.

this my code

employee_code = ‘DEV-2026-JD-001’

department = employee_code[0:3]

print(department)

year_code = employee_code[4:8]

print(year_code)

initials = employee_code[9:11]

print(initials)

last_three = employee_code[-3:15]

print(last_three)

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last_three = employee_code[-3:15]

Have a look at the example code. Can you see where you have gone wrong?

string[-3:]
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ok thanks bro, i misunderstand when i read the instructions

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