Python program to calculate the number of digits and letters in a string
Prerequisites: isnumeric() method – Python
Given a string, containing digits and letters, the task is to write a Python program to calculate the number of digits and letters in a string. The following block expresses the basic idea behind it:
Input: string = "geeks2for3geeks" Output: total digits = 2 and total letters = 13 Input: string = "python1234" Output: total digits = 4 and total letters = 6 Input: string = "co2mpu1te10rs" Output: total digits = 4 and total letters = 9
First Approach
The idea here is to solve this problem by iterating through all characters and check whether character is in all_digits or all_letters.
Program:
Python3
# define all digits as string all_digits = [ '0' , '1' , '2' , '3' , '4' , '5' , '6' , '7' , '8' , '9' ] # define all letters all_letters = [ 'a' , 'b' , 'c' , 'd' , 'e' , 'f' , 'g' , 'h' , 'i' , 'j' , 'k' , 'l' , 'm' , 'n' , 'o' , 'p' , 'q' , 'r' , 's' , 't' , 'u' , 'v' , 'w' , 'x' , 'y' , 'z' ] # given string string = "geeks2for3geeks" # initialized value total_digits = 0 total_letters = 0 # iterate through all characters for s in string: # if character found in all_digits then increment total_digits by one if s in all_digits: total_digits + = 1 # if character found in all_letters then increment total_letters by one elif s in all_letters: total_letters + = 1 print ( "Total letters found :-" , total_letters) print ( "Total digits found :-" , total_digits) |
Output:
Total letters found :- 13 Total digits found :- 2
Optimized Method
Instead of checking character in all_letters, we can check:
- if character is found in all digits, then increment total_digits value by one
- If not it means characters is a letter, increment total_letters value by one
Program:
Python3
# define all digits as string all_digits = [ '0' , '1' , '2' , '3' , '4' , '5' , '6' , '7' , '8' , '9' ] # define all letters all_letters = [ 'a' , 'b' , 'c' , 'd' , 'e' , 'f' , 'g' , 'h' , 'i' , 'j' , 'k' , 'l' , 'm' , 'n' , 'o' , 'p' , 'q' , 'r' , 's' , 't' , 'u' , 'v' , 'w' , 'x' , 'y' , 'z' ] # given string string = "geeks2for3geeks" # initialized value total_digits = 0 total_letters = 0 # iterate through all characters for s in string: # if character found in all_digits then increment total_digits by one if s in all_digits: total_digits + = 1 # if character not found in all_digits then increment total_letters by one else : total_letters + = 1 print ( "Total letters found :-" , total_letters) print ( "Total digits found :-" , total_digits) |
Output:
Total letters found :- 13 Total digits found :- 2
Second Approach (More Optimized Method)
The idea here is to solve this problem by iterating through all characters and check whether character is letter or digits using isnumeric() function. If isnumeric is True, it means character is digit, else character is a letter.
Program:
Python3
# given string string = "python1234" # initialized value total_digits = 0 total_letters = 0 # iterate through all characters for s in string: # if character is digit (return True) if s.isnumeric(): total_digits + = 1 # if character is letter (return False) else : total_letters + = 1 print ( "Total letters found :-" , total_letters) print ( "Total digits found :-" , total_digits) |
Output:
Total letters found :- 6 Total digits found :- 4
Shorter Approach#: Using re.findall() and len function
Here we use these function which make our solution more easy. First we find all the digits in string with the help of re.findall() which give list of matched pattern with the help of len we calculate the length of list and similarly we find the total letters in string with the help of re.findall() method and calculate the length of list using len.
Python3
import re # given string string = "geeks2for3geeks" # initialized value total_digits = len (re.findall( '[0-9]' ,string)) total_letters = len (re.findall( '[A-z]' , string)) # iterate through all characters print ( "Total letters found :-" , total_letters) print ( "Total digits found :-" , total_digits) |
Output:
Total letters found :- 13 Total digits found :- 2