Question

Write a function that accepts a line of text and a single letter as input (case insensitive) and returns the number of times the letter is the first character of a word. Note your program should be able to handle different cases. And check if the user input is a single letter. Example: Input text = "When the SUN rises at dawn, the chicken flies into the window." Input letter = "t" Output = "The letter t has appeared 3 times as the first letter of a word."

Python 3 programming

Answer 1

def firstLetterCount(line, letter):
    count = 0
    for x in line.split():
        if len(x)>0 and x[0]==letter:
            count += 1
    return count


# Testing
text = "When the SUN rises at dawn, the chicken flies into the window."
letter = "t"
count = firstLetterCount(text,letter)
print("The letter",letter,"has appeared",count,"times as the first letter of a word.")