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Write a function findWords(text,target) which searches the string text and finds the first place where target appears as a whole word (not contained in another word). Notice that you could have punctuation right after target (which you may assume is a period, exclamation mark, question mark, semi-colon, dash, comma, or quotation mark)


findWord('Code for finding all examples is hard to find! Right?', 'find') → 41
findWord('Sandy punctuation and-or dashes are silly and fun', 'and') → 18
findWord('How about an easy one?', 'How') → 0

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def findWord(text, target):

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