I cant figure out what I’m doing wrong here hope someone can explain what I should do
As you can see from the output, "h" is at index 7 in the alphabet string. Now you need to find the letter at index 7 plus the value of shift. For that, you can use the addition operator, +, in the same way you would use it for a mathematical addition.
Declare a variable named shifted and assign it the alphabet letter at index plus shift.
Your code so far
/* User Editable Region */
text = 'Hello World'
shift = 3
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
index = alphabet.find(text[0].lower())
print(index)
shifted = index + shift
/* User Editable Region */
Challenge Information:
Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16
Right now what you have done is given the variable shifted the value of index + shift. If you were to print index + shift, you would get the number 10 back.
So now we need to figure out which character in the string alphabet is at location 10 (a.k.a. index + shift).
To find a specific character in a string you would use string_var[int] where string_var is your string variable, and int is the number of the character you want.
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