Determine if this starts with the characters in text

Parameters:

text

The text to match.

Returns:

TRUE if this starts with the characters in text, FALSE otherwise ICU 2.0

Definition at line 3924 of file unistr.h.

References compare(), and length().

Referenced by DateTimeStyleSet::handleParseValue(), TimeZone::parseCustomID(), RuleBasedNumberFormat::setDefaultRuleSet(), DateIntervalFormat::setIntervalPattern(), MessageFormatRegressionTest::Test4142938(), UnicodeStringTest::TestPrefixAndSuffix(), NewResourceBundleTest::testTag(), and DateFormatTest::TestWallyWedel().

{ return compare(0, text.length(), text, 0, text.length()) == 0; }