Pattern matching on the beginning of a string in f#

Question

I am trying to match the beginning of strings in f#. Not sure if I have to treat them as a list of characters or what. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Answer 1

You could also use a guard on the pattern:

match text with
| txt when txt.StartsWith("The") -> true
| txt when txt.StartsWith("If") -> true
| _ -> false