has_prefix


Description:

[ Version ( since = "2.2" ) ]
[ CCode ( cname = "g_str_has_prefix" ) ]
public bool has_prefix (string 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