Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 26

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Inside the for loop, before printing the current character, declare a variable called index and assign the value returned by alphabet.find(char) to this variable.

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text = 'Hello World'
shift = 3
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'

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for char in text:    print(char)
index = alphabet.find(char)

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 26

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Hi, welcome to the forum! :wave:

Did you have a specific question or something that’s unclear?

It can help us to know what to explain.

Other than that I would try resetting the step, do not alter the indentation. Indentation matters in Python, indentation is syntax and it needs to be 100% correctly done. You can revisit step 24 for a primer on for loop syntax and indentation:

https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/scientific-computing-with-python/learn-string-manipulation-by-building-a-cipher/step-24

" So, when no indented block is found after the final colon, the code execution stops and an IndentationError is thrown."

Read the instructions carefully,

before printing the current character, declare a variable called index