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# Author: PUT YOUR NAME HERE
#  Date created: 18 Aug 2020
#  Date last modified: 18 Aug 2020
#  Program: stringPlay.py
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###############Problem 0#################
#   Example problem to show how this works.
#   arg is a lower-case string with at least two instances
#   of the letter q
#   Find the substring of arg between the first and last q
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arg = "quoque"
start = arg.find("q")
end = arg.rfind("q")
my_result = arg[start + 1: end]
result = "uo"  ##this is my given result
print(result == my_result)  ##prints True if you succeeded.

###############Problem 1#################
#   Remove all instances of the lower-case letter
#   s from a string.  
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arg = "sissyphus"
# your code goes here.
result = "iyphu"

###############Problem 2#################
#   arg is guaranteed to have at least two letters
#   and be an alphabetical string
#   Create a string with the first and last letters of arg.
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arg = "heinous"
result = "hs"

arg = "Washington"
result = "Wn"

###############Problem 3#################
#   head has an even number of letters
#   tail has an even number of letters
#   Create a string whose first half is the first
#   half of head and the second half of tail.
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head = "cerebellum"
tail = "wagger"
result = "cerebger"

###############Problem 4#################
#   arg is any string
#   Find out how many times the letter b occurs 
#   in arg, case INsensitive
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arg = "Babbage"
result = 3

###############Problem 5#################
#   arg is any string
#   Find out how many times the letter b occurs 
#   in the first 10 letters of arg, case INsensitive
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arg = "Babbage"
result = 3

arg = "flibbertygibbet"
result = 2

###############Problem 6#################
#   arg is any string
#   Find out how many times the letter b occurs 
#   in the first 10 letters of arg, case INsensitive
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arg = "Babbage"
result = 3

arg = "flibbertygibbet"
result = 2

###############Problem 7#################
#   arg is any string
#   center the string in a string of length 30
#   padded with !s.  
#   if the string has more than 30 characers, just
#   display it.  (no conditional logi on your part needed)
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arg = "wabbit"
result = "!!!!!!!!!!!!wabbit!!!!!!!!!!!!"

###############Problem 8#################
#   arg is any string
#   get rid of all of the whitespace on the left, if any
#   replace any spaces on the right with @s.
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arg = "        wabbit    "
result = "wabbit@@@@"