Counting Words With a Given Prefix

Problem Description

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

Example 2:

Input: words = ["leetcode","win","loops","success"], pref = "code"
Output: 0
Explanation: There are no strings that contain "code" as a prefix.

Constraints:

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

Solution (Go)

func prefixCount(words []string, pref string) int {
	count := 0
	for _, word := range words {
		if strings.HasPrefix(word, pref) {
			count++
		}
	}
	return count
}