String’s startsWith method checks if String starts with specific prefix. It returns boolean datatype.
Method Signature:
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public boolean startsWith(String prefix) |
String startsWith Example:
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package org.arpit.java2blog; public class StringStartsWithExample { public static void main(String[] args) { String str = "java2blog"; if (str.startsWith("java")) { System.out.println("String starts with java"); } else { System.out.println("String does not start with java"); } if (str.startsWith("JAVA")) { System.out.println("String starts with JAVA"); } else { System.out.println("String does not start with JAVA"); } } } |
When you run above program, you will get below output:
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String starts with java String does not start with JAVA |
Please note that startsWith method is case sensitive as you can see in above example
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