<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>Description:</b></p>
<p> This method has two variants and tests if a string starts with the specified prefix beginning a specified index or by default at the beginning.</p>
<p> <b>Syntax:</b></p>
<p> Here is the syntax of this method:</p>
<pre class="highlight" name="code">public boolean startsWith(String prefix, int toffset)

or

public boolean startsWith(String prefix)
</pre>
<p>
<b>Parameters:</b></p>
<p> Here is the detail of parameters:</p>
<p></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b>prefix </b>&#8212; the prefix to be matched.</li>
<li><b>toffset </b>&#8212; where to begin looking in the string.</li>
</ul>
<p>
 <b>Return Value :</b></p>
<p></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>It returns true if the character sequence represented by the argument is a prefix of the character sequence represented by this string; false otherwise.</li>
</ul>
<p>
 <b>Example:</b></p>
<pre class="highlight" name="code">import java.io.*;

public class Test{
 public static void main(String args[]){
 String Str = new String("Welcome to Dineshonjava.com");

 System.out.print("Return Value :" );
 System.out.println(Str.startsWith("Welcome") );

 System.out.print("Return Value :" );
 System.out.println(Str.startsWith("Dinesh") );

 System.out.print("Return Value :" );
 System.out.println(Str.startsWith("Dineshon", 11) );
 }
}
</pre>
<p>
This produces following result:</p>
<div style="background-color: #ff99cc;"><b>output:</b><br />
Return Value :true<br />
Return Value :false<br />
Return Value :true</div>
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