How to check if a string starts with one of several prefixes?

Question

I have the following if statement:

String newStr4 = strr.split(\"2012\")[0];
if (newStr4.startsWith(\"Mon\")) {
    str4.add(newStr4);
}

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Answer 1

Besides the solutions presented already, you could use the Apache Commons Lang library:

if(StringUtils.startsWithAny(newStr4, new String[] {"Mon","Tues",...})) {
  //whatever
}

Update: the introduction of varargs at some point makes the call simpler now:

StringUtils.startsWithAny(newStr4, "Mon", "Tues",...)