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6.5 Write code using find() and string slicing (see section 6.10) to extract the number at the end of the line below. Convert the extracted value to a floating point number and print it out.
text = "X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.8475";
x = text.find(" ")
y = text[x:]
fy=float(y)
print(fy)
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Very short and precise

y = float(text[text.find(' '):])
print(y)

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