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AnsiStartsText function

In unit StrUtils

Check whether a string starts with a given substring, ignoring case.

Declaration

pascal
function AnsiStartsText(const ASubText: AnsiString; 
 const AText: AnsiString): Boolean

Arguments

ASubText

Substring to check for.

AText

String to check in.

Function result

True if the given string starts with the substring, False if not.

Description

AnsiStartsText checks AText to see whether it starts with ASubText , and returns True if it does, False if not. The check is performed case-insensitive. Basically, it checks whether the position of ASubText equals 1.

Errors

None.

See also

An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.