has_prefix

Looks whether the string str begins with prefix.

Example: Check whether the string begins with a prefix:

public static int main (string[] args) {
	// Output: ``true``
	bool res = "Would You Like a Jelly Baby".has_prefix ("Would");
	print ("%s\n", res.to_string ());

	// Output: ``false``
	res = "Would You Like a Jelly Baby".has_prefix ("Dalek");
	print ("%s\n", res.to_string ());

	return 0;
}

valac --pkg glib-2.0 string.has_prefix.vala

Parameters:

prefix	the prefix to look for
str	a string to look in

Returns:

true if str begins with prefix, false otherwise