''' Purpose: continue string manipulation introduction
'''

print()

a = 'hatstall'
b = 'a  b'
c = 'a\tb'
d = 'aren\'t'
e = 'a\nb'

# Special characters are a "\something" and the backslash is not
# it's own character - it's a single unit.

# e[0] = 'a' e[1]='\n' e[2] = 'b'
# We would wanna know indexes because we might ask you
# for the 2nd character or for the last character or a similar problem
# like that (for this class) :)
# We wanna know where things are in a sequence!
# IMPORTANT: A string is a sequence of characters!! (pls write this down)

print( '### print strings' )
print( "a = ", a )
print( "b = ", b )
print( "c = ", c )
print( "d = ", d )
print( "e = ", e )

print()

print( '### string lengths' )
na = len( a )
nb = len( b )
nc = len( c )
nd = len( d )
ne = len( e )

print( 'len( a ) =', na )
print( 'len( b ) =', nb )
print( 'len( c ) =', nc )
print( 'len( d ) =', nd )
print( 'len( e ) =', ne )