Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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text = 'Hello World'
shift = 3
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
index = alphabet.find(text[0].lower())
print(index)
shifted = index + shift

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Challenge Information:

Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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Here you are accessing the character at index 0 of text

You want to access the character at index + shift of alphabet. Use the same format.

Use print() all the time as well, to see what a result is.
print(alphabet)
print(alphabet[0])
print(alphabet[index])
print(index + shift)

print() everything, all the time!

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It is great that you solved the challenge, but instead of posting your full working solution, it is best to stay focused on answering the original poster’s question(s) and help guide them with hints and suggestions to solve their own issues with the challenge.

We are trying to cut back on the number of spoiler solutions found on the forum and instead focus on helping other campers with their questions and definitely not posting full working solutions.

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"""
to find the index of the "h" of the hello world in the alphabet we used alphabet.find(text[0])

however if you looking to find the letter it self you don't need to used find.

below is an example code
"""
text_1 = "hello world"

alphabet = "worldhello"

# now assume you need to know the index of the h at the alphabet.

index = alphabet.find(text_1[0]) # this code should result with 5

print(index)

# now assume you want to shift 3 digits, your code should be as follow

shifed = alphabet[index + 3] # noticed we didn't use .find here after the alphabet 

print(shifted) # should resulted with letter "l"
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"""
to find the index of the "h" of the hello world in the alphabet we used alphabet.find(text[0])

however if you looking to find the letter it self you don't need to used find.

below is an example code
"""
text_1 = "hello world"

alphabet = "worldhello"

# now assume you need to know the index of the h at the alphabet.

index = alphabet.find(text_1[0]) # this code should result with 5

print(index)

# now assume you want to shift 3 digits, your code should be as follow

shifed = alphabet[index + 3] # noticed we didn't use .find here after the alphabet 

print(shifted) # should resulted with letter "l"
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text = ‘Hello World’
shift = 3
alphabet = ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’
index = alphabet.find(text[0].lower())
shifted=index+shift is alphabet[10]
print(shifted)

i dont know what i am even doing at this point

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Hi,
This has been answered many times in the forum, I would suggest looking through these threads for explanations:

https://forum.freecodecamp.org/search?q=Cipher%20-%20Step%2016%20in%3Atitle

If those don’t help you will need to open a new thread.