startsWith

Short summary

This assertion method checks if the current string stringToCheck starts with start

Attention: All strings are handled as null terminated byte/word streams. For windows-1252 is end of the string 16#00 For UTF-16 is end of the string 16#00_00

Attention: Method uses ANY_STRING and for this it's not possible to use literals/constants, because for ANY types the compiler generates__SYSTEM.AnyType and __SYSTEM.AnyType contains a pointer

Attention: start of the string is ALWAYS the left side of the string even for writings which written from right to left like Hebrew or Arabic

Parameters

Name	Type	Comment	Kind
stringToCheck	ANY_STRING	current string to check	input
start	ANY_STRING	expected start of stringToCheck	input
message	AssertMessage	message if the assertion is false	input
ignoreCases	BOOL	TRUE means ignore cases; FALSE means cases must be equal too	input
trim	BOOL	TRUE means truncation of spaces on the left side of stringToCheck	input
normalizeStrings	BOOL	normalize both strings for check	input

Code

Declaration

METHOD startsWith
VAR_INPUT
	(* current string to check *)
	stringToCheck	:ANY_STRING;
	(* expected start of ``stringToCheck`` *)
	start			:ANY_STRING;
	(* message if the assertion is false *)
	message			:AssertMessage;
	(* ``TRUE`` means ignore cases; ``FALSE`` means cases must be equal too *)
	ignoreCases		:BOOL := FALSE;
	(* ``TRUE`` means truncation of spaces on the left side of ``stringToCheck``*)
	trim			:BOOL := FALSE;
	(*normalize both strings for check*)
	normalizeStrings :BOOL := TRUE;
END_VAR