'''
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";

char= text.find(':')
numb= text[char+1 :]
num = numb.strip()

print(float(num))
