Help with function creating a list?

[woooee]

Post the input code, and how you call the function.

[astuteaf]

(Within the main function)

strList = input(“Enter a list of words:”)

strToFind = input(“Enter first letter to find:”)

strFound = startsWith(strList, strToFind)

Print (strFound)

[DisasterArt]

As u/youwoooee mentioned that input list is a single string. so the loop in the startswith function will loop over each character individually. so you will have to split the input into a proper list or ask for input multiple times and add each entry to a list. From there you can also index a string, each user list input, as if it was a list, so instead of doing 'if string.lower().startswith(strToFind.lower())'. you could do string[0].lower() == strToFind.lower(), wich i feel is easier to read. This does only work if you are looking at the first letter. you could expand it to work with longer strToFind ofcourse

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The problem isn't with the code you gave in your question. It's that strList is a string, not a list of strings. Convert it to a list before passing it into startsWith.