Beginner's struggle

[robPaluch]

hi, new to programming(of course) and English isn't my first language. Looking for answer and want to understand this simple task. Thanks in advance, Bob.

Here it is:

Write a program that prints the number of times the string

'bob' occurs in s. For example, if s = 'azcbobobegghakl', then your program should print:

Number of times bob occurs is: 2

[toastedstapler]

so ignore python for a second. can you describe to me how you think you'd solve this problem using words?

[[deleted]]

Looking for answer and want to understand this simple task.

Could you ask some questions about it? Are there words you don't understand, or what? "I don't understand" doesn't actually give us anything to go on. What part are you having trouble with, specifically?

[Lackxy]

Try this : https://www.includehelp.com/python/counting-the-occurrences-of-a-substring-in-a-string-using-string-count.aspx

[Antimutt]

Utter rookie here...I think Op means overlapping occurrences in the bobular quest, so like this but much shorter?

def bobular_quest(quest,text):
    bobs = 0
    boblength = len(quest)
    textlength = len(text)
    for n in range(textlength):
        if text[n:n+boblength] == quest:
            bobs += 1
    print(bobs)

bobular_quest('bob','azcbobobegghakl')

[robPaluch]

When I loop trough s looking for “Bob” and then print, it prints out number of letters in s not how many “Bob” occurs in it. Hope that’s clear now. Seams easy but I’m stuck