From e013d38cc6e4d0b5630a9cd6d694f96152c2df61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthieu Gautier <mgautier@kymeria.fr>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 14:03:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add startWith function in stringTools.h

---
 include/tools/stringTools.h | 2 ++
 src/tools/stringTools.cpp   | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/tools/stringTools.h b/include/tools/stringTools.h
index 7dd2605ed..f106d7893 100644
--- a/include/tools/stringTools.h
+++ b/include/tools/stringTools.h
@@ -70,5 +70,7 @@ T extractFromString(const std::string& str) {
     iss >> ret;
     return ret;
 }
+
+bool startsWith(const std::string& base, const std::string& start);
 } //namespace kiwix
 #endif
diff --git a/src/tools/stringTools.cpp b/src/tools/stringTools.cpp
index feb0f34f0..c1025b522 100644
--- a/src/tools/stringTools.cpp
+++ b/src/tools/stringTools.cpp
@@ -377,3 +377,11 @@ std::string kiwix::normalize(const std::string& word)
 {
   return kiwix::lcAll(word);
 }
+
+
+bool kiwix::startsWith(const std::string& base, const std::string& start)
+{
+   return start.length() <= base.length()
+        && std::equal(start.begin(), start.end(), base.begin());
+}
+