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stevenxu77 solution in Clear category for Between Markers by stevenxu77
def between_markers(text: str, begin: str, end: str) -> str:
"""
returns substring between two given markers
"""
# your code here
starting_index = text.find(begin)
if begin == end:
ending_index = text.find(end, starting_index+1)
else:
ending_index = text.find(end)
if starting_index == -1 and ending_index == -1:
return text
elif starting_index >0 and ending_index == -1:
return text[starting_index + len(begin):]
elif starting_index == -1 and ending_index > 0:
return text[0:ending_index]
else:
return text[starting_index + len(begin):ending_index]
if __name__ == '__main__':
print('Example:')
print(between_markers('What is >apple<', '>', '<'))
# These "asserts" are used for self-checking and not for testing
assert between_markers('What is >apple<', '>', '<') == "apple", "One sym"
assert between_markers("My new site",
"", "") == "My new site", "HTML"
assert between_markers('No[/b] hi', '[b]', '[/b]') == 'No', 'No opened'
assert between_markers('No [b]hi', '[b]', '[/b]') == 'hi', 'No close'
assert between_markers('No hi', '[b]', '[/b]') == 'No hi', 'No markers at all'
assert between_markers('No ', '>', '<') == '', 'Wrong direction'
print('Wow, you are doing pretty good. Time to check it!')
March 29, 2021
