Is it possible to determine if a string begins with an character repeating x times?
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December 15, 2016, at 12:44 PM
I have a two strings
code_one = "222abc"
code_two = "2abc"
Is there a way I can determine that strings begin with "2" repeating any number of times?
Answer 1
You can simply use lstrip() and compare the lengths:
>>> code_one = "222abc"
>>> len(code_one) - len(code_one.lstrip("2"))
3
Or if you just want to check the string starts with some characters:
>>> code_one.startswith("222")
True
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