# File: strmisc.py
# Do some miscellaneous things with strings
#
# Matt Bishop, ECS 10, Fall 2012
#

# First, count substrings
instr = input("Enter a string: ")
# put quotes around the string to show its boundaries when it is printed
prstr = '"' + instr + '"'
# get the substring to find
ctstr = input("What substring should I count? ")
# put quotes around the string to show its boundaries when it is printed
prctstr = '"' + ctstr + '"'
# now print the count
count = instr.count(ctstr)
print(prstr, "contains the string", prctstr, count, "times")

#
# does it start and/or end with the string?
#
if instr.startswith(ctstr):
    print(prstr, "begins with", prctstr)
if instr.endswith(ctstr):
    print(prstr, "ends with", prctstr)

#
# now do a replacement
#
repstr = instr.replace(ctstr, "XXX")
prrepstr = '"' + repstr + '"'
print("Replacing", ctstr, "with XXX in", prstr, "gives", repstr)