Example of string find in Python
import re text = 'This is sample text to test if this pythonic '\ 'program can serve as an indexing platform for '\ 'finding words in a paragraph. It can give '\ 'values as to where the word is located with the '\ 'different examples as stated' find_the_word = re.finditer('as', text) for match in find_the_word: print('start {}, end {}, search string \'{}\''. format(match.start(), match.end(), match.group()))
Output
start 63, end 65, search string 'as' start 140, end 142, search string 'as' start 200, end 202, search string 'as'