From 50faff29a99e31cb88dffdb43178a4e29e71351a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ichthyostega <prg@ichthyostega.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 02:53:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add a startsWith util function

Boost has a starts_with in the string algorithms lib,
but we do not want to pull that in everywhere.
---
 src/lib/util.hpp | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/lib/util.hpp b/src/lib/util.hpp
index 6c36c2959..961439894 100644
--- a/src/lib/util.hpp
+++ b/src/lib/util.hpp
@@ -142,6 +142,20 @@ namespace util {
   
   
   
+  /** check if string starts with a given prefix */
+  inline bool
+  startsWith (string const& str, string const& prefix)
+  {
+    return 0 == str.rfind(prefix, 0);
+  }
+  
+  inline bool
+  startsWith (string const& str, const char* prefix)
+  {
+    return 0 == str.rfind(prefix, 0);
+  }
+  
+  
   /** shortcut for containment test on a map */
   template <typename MAP>
   inline bool