Question

Write function modifyString(origString, charsToReplace, count) that takes as input a string origString, a string charsToReplace, and a positive integer count, and returns a new string such that each character in origString that occurs in charsToReplace is replaced by n consecutive copies of that character (with the same case as in the original). For example,

Answer 1

Answer:

The code of the above program is provided below. using Python

Explanation:

Code in Python 3:-

def modifyString(origString,charsToReplace,count):

# Make s1 as original string

s1=origString

# Make s2 as charsToReplace string in lowercase

s2=charsToReplace.lower()

# Make s3 as charsToReplace string in uppercase

s3=s2.upper()

# Initialize answer as an empty string

ans=''

# Iterate the string upto length times

for i in range(len(s1)):

# check for chars in the string and append to the answer

if (s1[i] in s2) or (s1[i] in s3):

ans=ans+count*s1[i]

else:

ans=ans+s1[i]

# return the final string

return ans

print(modifyString("Our cat is funny","aeiou",5))    

print(modifyString("Our cat is funny","zu",3))