I have texts coming from the database and I try to check text with specific numbers and characters. I need to know how to check a word if the first letter is "1" or not.
How could I do this?
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`text[0] == "1"` will be `True` if the first character is `1`. – jkr Aug 15 '20 at 12:39
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1What have you tried coding already? – Aug 15 '20 at 12:39
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Look into [startswith function](https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/methods/string/startswith) – Eliran Turgeman Aug 15 '20 at 12:39
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Look up string method `startswith()` – BoarGules Aug 15 '20 at 12:40
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You can access the first letter of the word in the same way as the first item in a list. But remember that the first index is 0.
if word[0] == "1":
print("First letter is 1")
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You can use text.startswith("1") which will return True or False depending on whether your text starts with '1' or not