Java String Starts Wtih startsWithIgnoreCase(final String iFirst, final String iSecond)

Description

starts With Ignore Case

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static boolean startsWithIgnoreCase(final String iFirst,
            final String iSecond) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from  w w  w.j a v a 2  s . co  m*/
 * Copyright 1999-2010 Luca Garulli (l.garulli--at--orientechnologies.com)
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

public class Main {
    public static boolean startsWithIgnoreCase(final String iFirst,
            final String iSecond) {
        if (iFirst == null)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                    "Origin string to compare is null");
        if (iSecond == null)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("String to match is null");

        final int iSecondLength = iSecond.length();

        if (iSecondLength > iFirst.length())
            return false;

        for (int i = 0; i < iSecondLength; ++i) {
            if (Character.toUpperCase(iFirst.charAt(i)) != Character
                    .toUpperCase(iSecond.charAt(i)))
                return false;
        }
        return true;
    }
}

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