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 two strings that contain "at" as a prefix are: "attention" and "attend".

Example 2:

Input: words = ["neetcode","neet","nee","code"], pref = "ne"

Output: 3

Explanation: The three strings that contain "ne" as a prefix are: "neetcode","neet" and "nee".

Constraints:

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


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