Question

How to check if each letter in a string maps to the first letter of a word in another string with Python

Answer 1

def matches_pattern(pattern: str, sentence: str) -> bool:
    words = sentence.split()

    # Length mismatch → automatic failure
    if len(pattern) != len(words):
        return False

    # Compare each pattern character to the first letter of each word
    for p, w in zip(pattern, words):
        if p.lower() != w[0].lower():
            return False

    return True


def main():
    pattern = "jpcrg"
    sentence = "java python c rust go"

    if matches_pattern(pattern, sentence):
        print("Pattern matches!")
    else:
        print("Pattern does NOT match.")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()



"""
run:

Pattern matches!

"""

 

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