stralloc_starts(3)

✨ stralloc_starts — bestie, is this string a prefix or not ✨

okay so this one's a lil function from the libowfat girlies, and she's literally just a yes-or-no girlie. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

stralloc_starts — check if a string is a prefix of a stralloc 💖

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🎀 SYNTAX 🎀

#include <libowfat/stralloc.h>

int stralloc_starts(stralloc* sa,const char* in);

that's it. that's the whole vibe. two args, one int, zero drama. 🦋

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so stralloc_starts returns 1 if the \0-terminated string in in — like, without the terminating \0, bestie, we're not counting the little guy — is a prefix of the string stored in sa.

otherwise? she returns 0. that's it. that's the whole thing. 💀

⚠️ okay important one: sa must already be allocated. like, do not come to her with an unallocated sa, she will not be helping you, fr fr. this is not a maybe, this is a must. 🙈

so like, think of it as: does sa start with in? if yes → 1, if no → 0. slay. 👑

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

• 1 if in is a prefix of sa 💚
• 0 otherwise 💔

no in-between, no "it depends", no "well actually". just the two. iconic behaviour, honestly. ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• str_starts(3)

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this page lives in the Library Functions Manual, and it's the stralloc_starts(3) girlie herself — that's the whole header/footer situation, no extra version or date tag along for the ride. anyway ily, go allocate your sa first, mwah 💖💅🫶🌸