This code simply looks for a string in another string and returns the last postion of the occurance in the search string or -1 if its is not found.
I don't understand why my variable next_y
is not updating considering that pos
is an input into computation of next_y
. My thought that is that if I update pos
then next_y
should also update. Instead pos
gets updated and remains in the loop forever.
def find_last(x,y):
if x.find(y) == -1:
return -1
pos = x.find(y)
next_y = x.find(y, pos + 1)
while next_y != -1:
pos = pos + next_y
return pos
search = 'tom ran up but tom fell down'
target = 'tom'
print(find_last(search,target))
As mentioned in the comments, if you want to update next_y
, you need to do it explicitly :
while next_y != -1:
pos = pos + next_y
next_y = x.find(y, pos + 1)
You don't change the value of next_y in the while loop, so its value isn't updated. Value of next_y is calculated once and compared for ever (or only once). To update this value you should call 'next_y = x.find(y, pos + 1)' in the loop.
def find_last(x,y):
if x.find(y) == -1:
return -1
pos = x.find(y)
next_y = x.find(y, pos + 1)
while next_y != -1:
pos = pos + next_y
next_y = x.find(y, pos + 1)
return pos
search = 'tom ran up but tom fell down'
target = 'tom'
print(find_last(search,target))
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