As added to base
in 3.3.0, startsWith
(and endsWith
) are exactly this.
> startsWith("what", "wha")
[1] TRUE
> startsWith("what", "ha")
[1] FALSE
https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/startsWith.html
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