Counters Search.

Eighth class. A loop often counts or searches instead of only printing.

A counter starts at 0. On each match you increase it. A search uses a flag (for example found = False) and break on the first hit.

Mini example:

text = "abca" count = 0 for ch in text: if ch == "a": count = count + 1 found = False for ch in text: if ch == "c": found = True break print(count) print(found)

Common mistake: resetting the counter inside the loop; or forgetting break and searching to the end unnecessarily. We do not use the built-in string count() yet — we deliberately practice the loop.