2185. Counting Words With a Given Prefix

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You are given an array of strings words and a string pref.

Return the number of strings in words that contain pref as a prefix.

A prefix of a string s is any leading contiguous substring of s.

 

Example 1:

Input: words = ["pay","attention","practice","attend"], pref = "at"
Output: 2
Explanation: The 2 strings that contain "at" as a prefix are: "attention" and "attend".

Example 2:

Input: words = ["leetcode","win","loops","success"], pref = "code"
Output: 0
Explanation: There are no strings that contain "code" as a prefix.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= words.length <= 100
  • 1 <= words[i].length, pref.length <= 100
  • words[i] and pref consist of lowercase English letters.

Hints

Hint 1
Go through each word in words and increment the answer if pref is a prefix of the word.

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