String Methods (Week 6 & 7)

.upper()

Converts all characters in a string to uppercase

.lower()

Converts all characters in a string to lowercase

.capitalize()

Capitalizes only the first character of a string

.title()

Capitalizes the first letter of every word in a string

.strip()

Removes whitespace or specific characters from the beginning and end of a string

.replace(old

new)

len()

Returns the total number of characters in a string or items in a list

.find()

Returns the index of the first time a character appears or -1 if not found

.split()

Breaks a string into a list of substrings based on a separator

.startswith(prefix)

Returns True if the string begins with the specified value

.endswith(suffix)

Returns True if the string ends with the specified value