al_ustr_has_prefix_cstr(3)

✨ al_ustr_has_prefix_cstr(3) ✨

okay so bestie, this one's from the Library Functions Manual and it's literally the easiest little vibe check in the whole Allegro 5 API — like, we're checking if a string starts with another string, that's it, that's the whole thing 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

al_ustr_has_prefix_cstr — the Allegro 5 API function that tells you whether your ALLEGRO_USTR starts with a plain C string 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

bool al_ustr_has_prefix_cstr(const ALLEGRO_USTR *us1, const char *s2)

like, you give it a const ALLEGRO_USTR * called us1, you give it a const char * called s2, and it hands you back a bool. periodt ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Returns true iff us1 begins with s2. 🫶

not "if it contains it", not "if it ends with it" — begins with, bestie. it's a prefix check, it's giving very specific main character energy, and it's returning true iff that prefix situation is real. anything else? false. ngl that's the whole function and honestly? obsessed 💅

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• al_ustr_has_prefix(3) — same energy, different signature 🌈
• al_ustr_has_suffix_cstr(3) — the one that checks the end instead, iconic in its own way 💜

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💀 reminder: it checks whether us1 begins with s2 — don't come for me if you were expecting suffix behaviour, that's the other function's job 🧚

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and that's the page!! this cutie lives in the Allegro reference manual, filed under al_ustr_has_prefix_cstr(3) — catch you in the next one, mwah 🍓💖