starts_with.js (3014B)
1 /** 2 * @license Apache-2.0 3 * 4 * Copyright (c) 2018 The Stdlib Authors. 5 * 6 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 7 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 8 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 9 * 10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11 * 12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 13 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 14 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 15 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 16 * limitations under the License. 17 */ 18 19 'use strict'; 20 21 // MODULES // 22 23 var isInteger = require( '@stdlib/assert/is-integer' ).isPrimitive; 24 var isString = require( '@stdlib/assert/is-string' ).isPrimitive; 25 var format = require( './../../format' ); 26 27 28 // MAIN // 29 30 /** 31 * Tests if a string starts with the characters of another string. 32 * 33 * @param {string} str - input string 34 * @param {string} search - search string 35 * @param {integer} [position=0] - position at which to start searching 36 * @throws {TypeError} first argument must be a string 37 * @throws {TypeError} second argument must be a string 38 * @throws {TypeError} third argument must be an integer 39 * @returns {boolean} boolean indicating if the input string starts with the search string 40 * 41 * @example 42 * var bool = startsWith( 'Remember the story I used to tell you when you were a boy?', 'Remember' ); 43 * // returns true 44 * 45 * @example 46 * var bool = startsWith( 'Remember the story I used to tell you when you were a boy?', 'Remember, remember' ); 47 * // returns false 48 * 49 * @example 50 * var bool = startsWith( 'To be, or not to be, that is the question.', 'To be' ); 51 * // returns true 52 * 53 * @example 54 * var bool = startsWith( 'To be, or not to be, that is the question.', 'to be' ); 55 * // returns false 56 * 57 * @example 58 * var bool = startsWith( 'To be, or not to be, that is the question.', 'to be', 14 ); 59 * // returns true 60 * 61 * @example 62 * var bool = startsWith( 'To be, or not to be, that is the question.', 'quest', -9 ); 63 * // returns true 64 */ 65 function startsWith( str, search, position ) { 66 var pos; 67 var i; 68 if ( !isString( str ) ) { 69 throw new TypeError( format( 'invalid argument. First argument must be a string. Value: `%s`.', str ) ); 70 } 71 if ( !isString( search ) ) { 72 throw new TypeError( format( 'invalid argument. Second argument must be a string. Value: `%s`.', search ) ); 73 } 74 if ( arguments.length > 2 ) { 75 if ( !isInteger( position ) ) { 76 throw new TypeError( format( 'invalid argument. Third argument must be an integer. Value: `%s`.', position ) ); 77 } 78 if ( position < 0 ) { 79 pos = str.length + position; 80 } else { 81 pos = position; 82 } 83 } else { 84 pos = 0; 85 } 86 if ( search.length === 0 ) { 87 return true; 88 } 89 if ( 90 pos < 0 || 91 pos + search.length > str.length 92 ) { 93 return false; 94 } 95 for ( i = 0; i < search.length; i++ ) { 96 if ( str.charCodeAt( pos + i ) !== search.charCodeAt( i ) ) { 97 return false; 98 } 99 } 100 return true; 101 } 102 103 104 // EXPORTS // 105 106 module.exports = startsWith;