I need to write a code where a string contains a number, then this number is incremented by 1, and then printed out within the initial string input.
It should work like this
>>>addNumber('I slept 3 hours')
what number would you like to increment? 3
I slept 4 hours
>>>addNumber('I have 366 friends on facebook')
what number would you like to increment? 6
I have 377 friends on facebook
so far I have this, but I know it is wrong and honestly I don't know how to do this.
def incrementNumbers(statement):
number1=(int(input('What number would you like to increment?')))
number2 = number1 +1
i=[]
for numbers in statement:
if numbers.isdigit():
i.append(numbers)
statement.replace(numbers,number2)
Possible error in your code is:
- you are trying to replace with
int
type data in the string
directly.
- Also only checking
numbers.isdigit()
will modify all numbers irrespective of what you specified to modify.
Possible corrections to your code to make it run properly:
def incrementNumbers(statement):
number1 = int(input('What number would you like to increment?'))
number2 = number1 +1
i=[]
for numbers in statement:
if numbers.isdigit() and int(numbers) == number1:
i.append(numbers)
statement.replace(numbers,str(number2))
You can also change your incrementNumbers(statement)
function to:
def incrementNumbers(statement):
number1 = input('What number would you like to increment?')
number2 = str(int(number1)+1)
statement = statement.replace(number1,number2)
return statement
which I think is better than to use a for
loop.
You can use re.sub
here
>>> import re
>>> s = 'I have 366 friends on facebook'
>>> def addone(obj):
... val = int(obj.group(1))
... return str(val+1)
...
>>> i = raw_input('what number would you like to increment?')
what number would you like to increment?6
>>> re.sub('({})'.format(i),addone,s)
'I have 377 friends on facebook'
Another Example
>>> s = 'I slept 3 hours'
>>> i = raw_input('what number would you like to increment?')
what number would you like to increment?3
>>> re.sub('({})'.format(i),addone,s)
'I slept 4 hours'
And you can define your function like
def addNumber(s):
def addone(obj):
val = int(obj.group(1))
return str(val+1)
i = raw_input('what number would you like to increment?')
return(re.sub('({})'.format(i),addone,s))
However I advice that you have a validation function
i = raw_input('what number would you like to increment?')
if 0<int(i)<9:
return(re.sub('({})'.format(i),addone,s))
else:
return "Number out of range"
This will prevent the user from entering values outside your range
Under your requirements that the numeric value must be between 0 and 8, you can use string.replace
def increment(s, inc):
return s.replace(str(inc), str(inc + 1))
>>> s = 'I have 366 friends on facebook'
>>> inc = 6
>>> increment(s, 6)
'I have 377 friends on facebook'