PHP: Finding a starting position
One of the more frequent tasks when working with strings is to determine whether one string is a part (substring) of another string. Most programming languages have a built-in function for this very task. In PHP, there's no such function, we imitate it by using mb_strpos(). This function searches for the position of the first occurrence of one string in another.
<?php
if (mb_strpos('Валар Моргулис', 'Morgulis')) { // 6
// ...
}
In the example above, the function will return 6, which corresponds to the index of the letter M.
<?php
if (mb_strpos('Valar Morghulis', 'Valar')) { // 0
// ...
}
And in this example, it returns 0, which corresponds to the first letter of the string. There's a mistake often made by beginners in this kind of code. In PHP 0 is treated as false, а значит, условие не выполнится. Правильная проверка выглядит так:
<?php
if (mb_strpos('Valar Morghulis', 'Valar') !== false) {
// ...
}
The mb_strpos() function returns false if no substring was found, so you can use a strict comparison with false.
Instructions
Complete the implementation of startsWith(), which determines whether a string starts with a given substring.
<?php
startsWith('Hexlet', 'et'); // false
startsWith('Hexlet', 'Hex'); // true
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