org.jaxen.function
Class StartsWithFunction
java.lang.Object
org.jaxen.function.StartsWithFunction
- Function
public class StartsWithFunction
extends java.lang.Object
4.2 boolean starts-with(string,string)
The starts-with function returns true if the first argument string starts
with the second argument string, and otherwise returns false.
- bob mcwhirter (bob @ werken.com)
Object | call(Context context, List args) - Returns true if the string-value of the first item in
args
starts with the string-value of the second item in args .
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static Boolean | evaluate(Object strArg, Object matchArg, Navigator nav) - Returns true if the string-value of
strArg
starts with the string-value of matchArg .
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StartsWithFunction
public StartsWithFunction()
Create a new StartsWithFunction
object.
call
public Object call(Context context,
List args)
throws FunctionCallException
Returns true if the string-value of the first item in args
starts with the string-value of the second item in args
.
Otherwise it returns false.
- call in interface Function
context
- the context at the point in the
expression when the function is calledargs
- a list that contains two items
Boolean.TRUE
if the first item in args
starts with the string-value of the second item in args
;
otherwise Boolean.FALSE
evaluate
public static Boolean evaluate(Object strArg,
Object matchArg,
Navigator nav)
Returns true if the string-value of strArg
starts with the string-value of matchArg
.
Otherwise it returns false.
strArg
- the object whose string-value searched for the prefixmatchArg
- the object whose string-value becomes the prefix string to compare againstnav
- the navigator used to calculate the string-values of the arguments
Boolean.TRUE
if the string-value of strArg
starts with the string-value of matchArg
;
otherwise Boolean.FALSE