Question

Which of these methods of class String is used to check whether a given object starts with a particular string literal?

(a) startsWith()

(b) endsWith()

(c) Starts()

(d) ends()

This question was posed to me by my college director while I was bunking the class.

The origin of the question is String Comparison topic in division String Handling of Java

Answer 1

Right answer is (a) startsWith()

The best I can explain: Method startsWith() of string class is used to check whether the String in question starts with a specified string. It is a specialized form of method regionMatches().