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Christine
Christine

Reputation: 9

How do I use the if statement for input starting with a certain letter

I am trying to print a certain output if the user's input (greet) begins with a certain word "hello" else if the input begins with h using the if statement.

I have tried:

if greet == "hello":
    print("wrong") 
elif greet == "h_" #(but not hello)
    print(" okay")
else: 
    print("good")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3133

Answers (2)

Michael S.
Michael S.

Reputation: 3128

Try this. It ignores leading and trailing spaces by calling strip, it has a conditional for if nothing was placed in the input, and lastly it's case insensitive because it standardizes the input to lower:

greet = input().strip()

if len(greet) > 0:
    firstWord = greet.split(" ")[0].lower()
    if firstWord == 'hello':
        print("wrong")
    elif firstWord[0] == "h":
        print("ok")
    else:
        print("good")
else:
    print("You must enter something")

Upvotes: 1

EliasK93
EliasK93

Reputation: 3174

You could also use .startswith():

if greet.startswith("hello"):
    print("wrong")
elif greet.startswith("h"):
    print("okay")
else:
    print("good")

Upvotes: 1

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