Python | Ways to Determine a Common Prefix in a Stringset

# Python code for demo
# find common prefix
# from rowset

 
# Initializing string

ini_strlist = [ ’akshat’ , ’akash’ , ’ akshay’ , ’akshita’ ]

  
# Find the commom prefix using a naive approach

res = ’ ’

prefix = ini_strlist [ 0 ]

for string in ini_strlist [ 1 :]:

while string [: len (prefix)]! = prefix and prefix:

  prefix = prefix [: len (prefix) - 1 ]

# Python code for demo
# find common prefix
# from set lines

from itertools import takewhile

  
# Initializing string

ini_strlist = [ ’akshat’ , ’akash’ , ’ akshay’ , ’akshita’ ]

  
# Find the commom prefix using a naive approach

res = ’ ’.join (c [ 0 ] for c in takewhile ( lambda x:

all (x [ 0 ] = = y for y in x), zip ( * ini_strlist)))

 
# Print result

print ( "Resultant prefix" , str (res))