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Solution: Count the Number of Vowels in a String

Solution: Count the Number of Vowels in a String

Learn how to write a recursive function to count the number of vowels in a string in Python.

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The solution to the problem of counting the number of vowels in a string is given below.

Solution

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def counts_vowels(s, idx, count) :
  
  if idx == len(s):
    return count
  
  if s[idx] == 'a' or s[idx] == 'e' or s[idx] == 'i' or s[idx] == 'o' or s[idx] == 'u' :
    count += 1
  
  count = counts_vowels(s, idx + 1, count)
  return count
count = counts_vowels('Raindrops on roses', 0, 0)
print(count)

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