#  StringManipulationsMore.java (c) Kari Laitinen

#  http://www.naturalprogramming.com

#  2006-04-24  File created.
#  2022-12-16  Converted to Python 3.

#  For more information about slicing, see pythonfilesextra\Slicings.py

first_string   =  "AAABBBCCCDDD"
second_string  =  "xxxyyyzzz"

print( "\n CHARACTER POSITIONS    : 01234567890123456" )
print( "\n Original first_string  : " + first_string, end="" )
print( "\n Original second_string : " + second_string, end="" )

first_string  =  second_string[ 0 : 5 ]  +   \
                 first_string[ 5 : len( first_string ) ]

print( "\n Modified first_string  : " + first_string, end="" )


if  first_string[ 0 : 5 ]  ==  second_string[ 0 : 5 ]  :

   print( "\n The first five characters in both strings are the same", end="" )


if  first_string.find( "CCCD" )  !=  -1 :

   print(  "\n String \"%s\"includes string \"CCCD\" in index position %d." \
          %  ( first_string, first_string.find( "CCCD" ) ) )