Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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Tell us what’s happening:

I have every seemingly possible way to do this, and I’m sure its something simple I am missing

Your code so far

text = ‘Hello World’

shift = 3

alphabet = ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’

index = alphabet.find(text[0].lower())

print(index)

shifted = index + shift

print(shifted)


/* User Editable Region */

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

/* User Editable Region */

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Challenge Information:

Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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Use this format

variable = string[num1 + num2]

You were correct up to here:

shifted =

Declare a variable named shifted and assign it the alphabet letter at index plus shift.

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Thank you for the help it worked!

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