str_starts_with

(PHP 8)

str_starts_withChecks if a string starts with a given substring

Descrierea

str_starts_with ( string $haystack , string $needle ) : bool

Performs a case-sensitive check indicating if haystack begins with needle.

Parametri

haystack

The string to search in.

needle

The substring to search for in the haystack.

Valorile întoarse

Returns true if haystack begins with needle, false otherwise.

Exemple

Example #1 Using the empty string ''

<?php
if (str_starts_with('abc''')) {
    echo 
"All strings start with the empty string";
}
?>

Exemplul de mai sus va afișa:

All strings start with the empty string

Example #2 Showing case-sensitivity

<?php
$string 
'The lazy fox jumped over the fence';

if (
str_starts_with($string'The')) {
    echo 
"The string starts with 'The'\n";
}

if (
str_starts_with($string'the')) {
    echo 
'The string starts with "the"';
} else {
    echo 
'"the" was not found because the case does not match';
}

?>

Exemplul de mai sus va afișa:

The string starts with 'The'
"the" was not found because the case does not match

Note

Notă: Această funcție acceptă și date binare.

A se vedea și

  • str_contains() - Determine if a string contains a given substring
  • str_ends_with() - Checks if a string ends with a given substring
  • stripos() - Find the position of the first occurrence of a case-insensitive substring in a string
  • strrpos() - Find the position of the last occurrence of a substring in a string
  • strripos() - Find the position of the last occurrence of a case-insensitive substring in a string
  • strstr() - Find the first occurrence of a string
  • strpbrk() - Search a string for any of a set of characters
  • substr() - Return part of a string
  • preg_match() - Perform a regular expression match

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Paul Phillips
3 years ago
You can use this in PHP versions less than 8.

<?php
function str_starts_with ( $haystack, $needle ) {
  return
strpos( $haystack , $needle ) === 0;
}
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jgusta
3 years ago
With credit to Paul Phillips for the original polyfill posted.

If you do not have PHP 8, you can use these functions to get the capability of the new string functions.

But! Remember to use a conditional check to make sure the function is not already defined.

<?php
// source: Laravel Framework
// https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/8.x/src/Illuminate/Support/Str.php
if (!function_exists('str_starts_with')) {
    function
str_starts_with($haystack, $needle) {
        return (string)
$needle !== '' && strncmp($haystack, $needle, strlen($needle)) === 0;
    }
}
if (!
function_exists('str_ends_with')) {
    function
str_ends_with($haystack, $needle) {
        return
$needle !== '' && substr($haystack, -strlen($needle)) === (string)$needle;
    }
}
if (!
function_exists('str_contains')) {
    function
str_contains($haystack, $needle) {
        return
$needle !== '' && mb_strpos($haystack, $needle) !== false;
    }
}
?>

This keeps it from breaking in case you upgrade and forget that you added it. This is a good practice generally when using the global scope for your helper functions.
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Reinder
3 years ago
In PHP7 you may want to use:

if (!function_exists('str_starts_with')) {
  function str_starts_with($str, $start) {
    return (@substr_compare($str, $start, 0, strlen($start))==0);
  }
}

AFAIK that is binary safe and doesn't need additional checks.
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