String Slicing

The technique of extracting a portion of a string by utilizing its indices is called slicing. Several real-world applications use slicing. For example, slicing can be used to extract the required information from messages sent over a communication because they conform to a specific format. Several data processing and cleaning tasks like web scraping, tokenization, and feature extraction also benefit from slicing.

Slicing in Python

For a given string, we can use the following template to slice it and retrieve a substring: