Text.starts_with
starts_withprefixcase_sensitivity
Group: Text
Aliases: check prefix
Documentation
Checks whether self
starts with prefix
.
Arguments
prefix
: The prefix to see ifself
starts with.case_sensitivity
: Specifies if the text values should be compared case sensitively.
Examples
See if the text "Hello!" starts with the specified prefix.
"Hello!".starts_with "Hello" == True
"Hello!".starts_with "hello" == False
"Hello!".starts_with "hello" Case_Sensitivity.Insensitive == True
Remarks
Unicode Equality
The definition of equality includes Unicode canonicalization. I.e. two texts are equal if they are identical after canonical decomposition. This ensures that different ways of expressing the same character in the underlying binary representation are considered equal.
'ś' . starts_with 's' == False 's\u301' . starts_with 's' == False 's\u301' . starts_with 'ś' == True 'ś' . starts_with 's\u301' == True