Write a PYTHON RECURSIVE function to count how many times a

Write a PYTHON RECURSIVE function to count how many times a character in a string.

>>> numberofcharacters(\'a,\'america\')

2

>>> numberofcharacters(\'e,\'engineering\')

3

Solution

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CODE :

srcStr = \'america\' # required values
varChar = \'a\'

def numberofcharacters(srcStr, varChar): # function that is called recursively to count the character count
   foundCount = 0 # temporary variable that stores the count
   for key in srcStr: # iterating over the loop to get the count value
       if key == varChar: # checking for the condition if the characters are same
           foundCount += 1 # incrementing the count value
   return foundCount # returning the count value
numberofcharacters(srcStr, varChar) # calling the functions recursively
print \'Total Count of %s is: %s \' %(varChar, numberofcharacters(srcStr, varChar)) # printing the resultant count

OUTPUT :

Total Count of a is: 2

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