Question

Write a program that prompts the user to enter two strings and then displays a message indicating whether or not the first string starts with the second string. Your program must satisfy the following requirements. 1. Your program must include a function called myStartsWith that takes two string parameters. This function returns True if the rst string starts with the second string and returns False otherwise. 2. Your program must include a main function that prompts the user for the two strings, passes those strings to the myStartsWith function. and uses the value returned to display the correct message. 3. The message must be in the format "string-1 starts with DOES NOT start with "string-2 Here are two example messages: "lowa City" starts with lowa lowa City" DOES NOT start with City 4, Your program may not use any methods from Python's str class.

Program must be in Python 3.

Answer 1

def myStartsWith(str1, str2):
    if len(str1) < len(str2):
        return False
    else:
        for i in range(len(str2)):
            if str1[i] != str2[i]:
                return False
        return True


def main():
    str1 = input('Enter first string: ')
    str2 = input('Enter second string: ')
    if myStartsWith(str1, str2):
        print(str1 + ' starts with ' + str2)
    else:
        print(str1 + ' DOES NOT start with ' + str2)

main()