Question

# PYTHON

Write a program whose input is a string which contains a character and a phrase, and whose output indicates the number of times the character appears in the phrase.

Ex: If the input is:

n Monday

the output is:

1

Ex: If the input is:

z Today is Monday

the output is:

0

Ex: If the input is:

n It's a sunny day

the output is:

2

Case matters.

Ex: If the input is:

n Nobody

the output is:

0

n is different than N.

Answer 1

To implement the given program, we will first take a user input string 'inputString' and store its first character to a variable 'a'. Next, we create a counter 'count' and initialize it to 0.Then, we iterate through the string from index 1 to length of the string.If a character is encountered which matches the character assigned to 'a' then we increase the counter. In the end, we print the count.

Code :

#taking input character and string
inputString = input()

#storing the first character to check
a = inputString[0]

#setting counter
count = 0

#traverse the string from index 1 to end
for element in range(1, len(inputString)):
        if inputString[element]==a :

            #update counter
            count = count + 1


#print count
print(count)

Output 1:

Output 2:

Output 3:

Output 4:

Note : Please keep track of the indentation while coding in python.