Name

starts-with — Returns true if the first argument string starts with the second argument string, and otherwise returns false.

Synopsis

boolean starts-with ( strg string ,
prefix string );

Description

For two given strings, this function checks if the first string starts with characters of second string. If any argument is not a string, it is converted to string using rules for string() XPATH function. Thus if the second argument has no string value, the function returns true, because it will be converted to an empty string first.

Parameters

strg

String whose first characters must be compared

prefix

String whose characters must be compared with first characters of strg

Return Types

Boolean

Examples

Example24.620.

starts-with('OpenLink Virtuoso', 'OpenLink')