Strings: working with text

name = "Aarav"
city = 'Bengaluru'                 # single or double quotes
print(name + " from " + city)      # + joins strings
print("-" * 20)                    # * repeats
print(len(name))                   # number of characters

print(name[0], name[-1])           # first and last character
print(city[0:4], city[4:])         # slices: [start:stop]

Aarav from Bengaluru
--------------------
5
A v
Beng aluru

status = "  Delivered  "
print("[" + status.strip() + "]")        # remove outer spaces
print(status.strip().lower())            # small letters
print("delivered".upper(), "pune".title())
print("2025-04-01".replace("-", "/"))
print("101,1,delivered".split(","))       # text -> list
print(" | ".join(["a", "b", "c"]))       # list -> text
print("deliver" in "delivered", "orders.csv".endswith(".csv"))

[Delivered]
delivered
DELIVERED Pune
2025/04/01
['101', '1', 'delivered']
a | b | c
True True

name, orders, revenue = "Diya", 3, 4143.0
print(f"{name} placed {orders} orders worth {revenue}")
print(f"{revenue:,.2f}")          # thousands separator, 2 decimals
print(f"{orders:03d}")            # pad with zeros: 003
print(f"{name:<8}|{name:>8}|")    # align left / right in 8 spaces
print(f"{0.256:.1%}")             # as a percentage

Diya placed 3 orders worth 4143.0
4,143.00
003
Diya    |    Diya|
25.6%