Python – Extract String after Nth occurrence of K character

Given a String, extract the string after Nth occurrence of a character. 

Input : test_str = ‘geekforgeeks’, K = “e”, N = 2 Output : kforgeeks Explanation : After 2nd occur. of “e” string is extracted. Input : test_str = ‘geekforgeeks’, K = “e”, N = 4 Output : ks Explanation : After 4th occur. of “e” string is extracted.

Method #1 : Using split()

This is one of the ways in which this task can be performed. In this we customize split() to split on Nth occurrence and then print the rear extracted string using “-1”.

Python3

# Python3 code to demonstrate working of
# Extract String after Nth occurrence of K character
# Using split()

# initializing string
test_str = 'geekforgeeks'

# printing original string
print("The original string is : " + str(test_str))

# initializing K
K = "e"

# initializing N
N = 3

# using split() to perform required string split
# "-1" to extract required part
res = test_str.split(K, N)[-1]

# printing result
print("The extracted string : " + str(res))

Output

The original string is : geekforgeeks
The extracted string : eks

Method #2 : Using re.split()

This is yet another way to solve this problem. Similar to above function, we perform split() to perform task of splitting but from regex library which also provides flexibility to split on Nth occurrence.

Python3

# Python3 code to demonstrate working of
# Extract String after Nth occurrence of K character
# Using re.split()
import re

# initializing string
test_str = 'geekforgeeks'

# printing original string
print("The original string is : " + str(test_str))

# initializing K
K = "e"

# initializing N
N = 3

# using split() to perform required string split
# "-1" to extract required part
res = re.split(K, test_str, N)[-1]

# printing result
print("The extracted string : " + str(res))

Output

The original string is : geekforgeeks
The extracted string : eks

Method #3 : Using slicing

Python3

str = "geeksforgeeks"
char="e"
count=2
j=1
print("The original string : "+str)
for i in range(0,len(str)):
    if(str[i]==char and j<count):
        j+=1
    elif(str[i]==char and j==count):
        print("The extracted string : "+str[i+1:])
        break

Output

The original string : geeksforgeeks
The extracted string : ksforgeeks