Counting Character Frequency with Lambda

Write a lambda function that counts the number of times a character appears in a string.

Example 1:

Input: 'hello', 'l'

Output: 2

Example 2:

Input: 'world', 'o'

Output: 1

Use a lambda function and the count method of python strings.

# Define the lambda function
count_char = lambda s, c: s.count(c)

# Test the function
print(count_char('hello', 'l')) # Output: 2
print(count_char('world', 'o')) # Output: 1

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Counting Character Frequency with Lambda

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