Check if one string is a prefix of another

Question

I have two strings which I\'d like to compare: String and String:. Is there a library function that would return true when passed these two strings

Answer 1

str1.find(str2) returns 0 if entire str2 is found at the index 0 of str1:

#include 
#include 

// does str1 have str2 as prefix?
bool StartsWith(const std::string& str1, const std::string& str2)
{   
    return (str1.find(str2)) ? false : true;
}

// is one of the strings prefix of the another?
bool IsOnePrefixOfAnother(const std::string& str1, const std::string& str2)
{   
    return (str1.find(str2) && str2.find(str1)) ? false : true;
}

int main()
{
    std::string str1("String");
    std::string str2("String:");
    std::string str3("OtherString");

    if(StartsWith(str2, str1))
    {
        std::cout << "str2 starts with str1" << std::endl;      
    }
    else
    {
        std::cout << "str2 does not start with str1" << std::endl;
    }

    if(StartsWith(str3, str1))
    {
        std::cout << "str3 starts with str1" << std::endl;      
    }
    else
    {
        std::cout << "str3 does not start with str1" << std::endl;
    }

        if(IsOnePrefixOfAnother(str2, str1))
        {
            std::cout << "one is prefix of another" << std::endl;      
        }
        else
        {
            std::cout << "one is not prefix of another" << std::endl;
        }

        if(IsOnePrefixOfAnother(str3, str1))
        {
            std::cout << "one is prefix of another" << std::endl;      
        }
        else
        {
            std::cout << "one is not prefix of another" << std::endl;
        }

    return 0;
}

Output:

  str2 starts with str1
  str3 does not start with str1
  one is prefix of another
  one is not prefix of another