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var = 'Reservoir'

# Indexing means positioning

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# R = 0, -9
# e = 1
# s = 2
# e = 3
# r = 4
# v = 5
# o = 6, -3
# i = 7, -2
# r = 8 , -1

# variable_name[index pos]

var[0]

'R'

var[2]

's'

var[-1]

'r'

var[8]

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'r'
var[9]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
IndexError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-21-600d4ab32bb0> in <module>()
----> 1 var[9]

IndexError: string index out of range

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# length function

# syntax - len(variable_name)

len(var)

var2 = 'Thiruvanantapuram'

len(var2)

17

var2[16]

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'm'

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