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Big Aus
Big Aus

Reputation: 59

I need to compare two strings and remove characters if they match from string one, python

I have two strings so for example: string1 = "abcdefga" string2 = "acd" I need to make string one return with "befga" I can replace it but if string1 has two of the same characters it gets rid of both so for example my string1 keeps returning as "befg":

for char in string1:
    for nike in string2:
        if char == nike:
            string1 = string1.replace(char,"")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4195

Answers (1)

Joachim Isaksson
Joachim Isaksson

Reputation: 180917

You can use the maxreplace parameter of replace to replace only the first occurrence;

string.replace(s, old, new[, maxreplace])
Return a copy of string s with all occurrences of substring old replaced by new. If the optional argument maxreplace is given, the first maxreplace occurrences are replaced.

string1 = "abcdefga"
string2 = "acd"

for ch in string2:
    string1 = string1.replace(ch, '', 1)

print(string1)
'befga'

Upvotes: 7

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