String Methods

There are various methods you can call on strings to change them or check if they contain certain characters.

You can view a full list of them here

These are the string methods that you should know:

• upper - converts all alphabetic characters to uppercase
• lower - converts all alphabetic characters to lowercase
• split - returns an array of the string split by a certain pattern (by default, the string is split by spaces)
• isalpha - returns True if all characters in the string are alphabetic
• isdigit - returns True if all characters in the string are digits
• strip - strips all whitespace from the beginning and end of the character

# string methods
message = "hey dude"
print(message)  # prints "hey dude"
message = message.upper()
print(message)  # prints "HEY DUDE"

message = "THIS WAS IN ALL CAPS"
print(message)  # prints "THIS WAS IN ALL CAPS"
message = message.lower()
print(message)  # prints "this was in all caps"

message = "one two three four five"
# prints ['one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five']
print(message.split())

message = "tahiti, it's, a, magical, place"
# prints ['tahiti', " it's", ' a', ' magical', ' place']
print(message.split(","))

message = "hello"
print(message.isalpha())  # True
message = "12345"
print(message.isalpha())  # False

message = "12345"
print(message.isdigit())  # True
message = "hello world"
print(message.isdigit())  # False

message = "   lots of white space     "
print(message)
message = message.strip()
print(message + "|")

View code on GitHub.

Output of the above code:

hey dude
HEY DUDE
THIS WAS IN ALL CAPS
this was in all caps
['one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five']
['tahiti', " it's", "a", 'magical', 'place']
True
False
True
False
   lots of white space     
lots of white space|

<aside> 💡 Remember, these are also methods, so just like with list methods, you have to do variable_name.method(). Just doing method() by itself will either not work or cause an error.

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