is the process of combining two or more strings together.

String slicing can be helpful when manipulating and extracting from strings.

The method returns the index of the first occurrence of a specified substring.

The method returns the number of occurrences of a specified substring in a string.

Using a step value in string slicing allows you to skip characters. For example, [::2] will return characters.

The replace() method can also be used to remove specified characters from a string by replacing them with an empty .

Strings are a sequence of .

The replace() method is case-sensitive, meaning that it will only replace occurrences of the specified phrase with the specified replacement if they have the same .