Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 14

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Tell us what’s happening:

I replaced z with text[0] but it’s still not working can someone explain why

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text = 'Hello World'
shift = 3
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
alphabet.find('text[0]')

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 14

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Welcome to the forum @golden_knight

You should modify your existing alphabet.find('z') call passing text[0] to the method.

You are not asked to pass a string.

Happy coding

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Ok thank you very much, but how do I know when to add single quotation marks and when not to?

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when it’s talking about a variable, don’t add quotation marks

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Ok, thank you so much :grinning_face: