Find all the occurrences of a character in a string

Question

I am trying to find all the occurences of "|" in a string.

def findSectionOffsets(text):     startingPos = 0     endPos = len(text)      for position in text.find("|",startingPos, endPos):         print position         endPos = position 

But I get an error:

    for position in text.find("|",startingPos, endPos): TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable 

Answer 1

The function:

def findOccurrences(s, ch):     return [i for i, letter in enumerate(s) if letter == ch]   findOccurrences(yourString, '|') 

will return a list of the indices of yourString in which the | occur.

Answer 2

if you want index of all occurrences of | character in a string you can do this

import re str = "aaaaaa|bbbbbb|ccccc|dddd" indexes = [x.start() for x in re.finditer('\|', str)] print(indexes) # <-- [6, 13, 19] 

also you can do

indexes = [x for x, v in enumerate(str) if v == '|'] print(indexes) # <-- [6, 13, 19]