Access by Offset

Access by Offset

Great work! (By the way, you could also have repaired the string by replacing the single quotes on the ends with double quotes, like this: "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!".)

Remember how we told you that strings were, technically speaking, strings of characters? Wouldn't it be nifty if you could get to each character in a string individually?

Well, you can!

Each character in a string has a subscriptor offset, which is a fancy way of saying it has a number attached to it. The number starts at 0 for the leftmost character and increases by one as you move character-by-character to the right. Check out the diagram in the editor!

"""The string "PYTHON" has six characters,numbered 0 to 5, as shown below:+---+---+---+---+---+---+| P | Y | T | H | O | N |+---+---+---+---+---+---+  0   1   2   3   4   5So if you wanted "Y", you could just type"PYTHON"[1] (always start counting from 0!)"""fifth_letter ="MONTY" fifth_letter=fifth_letter[4]print fifth_letter

INSTRUCTIONS

When you think you've got the hang of the code in the editor, setfifth_letter equal to the fifth letter of the string "MONTY", like so:"MONTY"[?] (but replace the ? with the correct number).