Re: [Help-smalltalk] Best way to find if a string begins with a particular string..

[Gwenaël Casaccio]

On 16/10/2012 20:41, Rick Flower wrote:
> Hi all..
>
> So I've been writing code this morning to parse various things and I'm 
> not
> sure what the best way to do for this next piece I need..
>
> I need to determine if a string (read in from a stream) has a specified
> string prefix present or not and return a boolean..
>
> So, below are some example strings and the respective results :
>
> 'FooBarBaz' isStringPrefixPresent: 'Foo' -->true
>
> 'FooBarBaz' isStringPrefixPresent: 'Bar' --> false
>
> './mycoolfilename' isStringPrefixPresent: './' --> true
>
> Is there a good way to do this without funny looping character by
> character? I'll probably do that initially but thought I'd ask from
> you that probably know better than I do..
>
> Thx!
>
> --Rick
>
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Hi,

you can use startsWith:

cheers,
gwen