Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

[Drewrathburn]

Tell us what’s happening:

Describe your issue in detail here.
I am having issues understanding how to convert the sum of index and shift to find a letter in the alphabet string

Your code so far

/* User Editable Region */

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

/* User Editable Region */

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Challenge Information:

Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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[HungryBee]

Hello Drew,

In step 16, you need to us the alphabet variable to find the character at location index + shift. And store this in a new variable called shifted.

Both shift and index are integers so we can add those to get a single int:

index + shift

Now we would like to find the character in the alphabet that represents this new integer as followed:

alphabet[index + shift]

Then once we’ve done this we would like to assign it to a new variable called shifted.

shifted = alphabet[index + shift]

And there we go, we solved step 16!

You got this!

[Drewrathburn]

thank you, this helped a lot. I thought I needed to fully implement the alphabet.find(text) into the line but it was much simplier. Thank you

[HungryBee]

Haha yeah I ended up wanting to go too fast on occasions too.

[ilenia]

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[HungryBee]

Oh no thanks I’m all good.
Appreciated though.

[ilenia]

I must be really tired, I wanted to post this instead

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