Determines whether a particular substring is stored at the beginning of another string.

Syntax

@Begins( string ; substring )

Parameters

string

Text or text string. Any string.

Text or text string. The string you want to search for at the beginning of string.

flag

Boolean.
• Returns 1 (True) if substring is contained within string, beginning from the first letter
• Returns 0 (False) if not

This function is case-sensitive.

If the either parameter is a list, the function tests each element of the second parameter against each element of the first parameter and returns 1 if any match occurs.

Example
See Also

@Contains
@Ends
@Left
@LeftBack
@Middle
@MiddleBack
@Right
@RightBack
Locating and extracting substrings

Glossary