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Apache Commons Lang 3.0 is a java library with lot of utilities and reusable components. This requires the library commons-lang3-3.0.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using StringUtils.startsWithAny() API. It returns TRUE if the given char sequence starts with any of the specified strings.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_lang/tests/strings/StartsWithAnyTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_lang.tests.strings;



import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;



public class StartsWithAnyTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {

         

    String [] str = { "ab", "xyz", "1234" };

    

    System.out.println(StringUtils.startsWithAny(null, str));

    System.out.println(StringUtils.startsWithAny("", str));

    

    System.out.println(StringUtils.startsWithAny("123456", str));

    System.out.println(StringUtils.startsWithAny("abcdefg", str));

    System.out.println(StringUtils.startsWithAny("123xyz456", str));

    

    System.out.println(StringUtils.startsWithAny("xyz", str));

    System.out.println(StringUtils.startsWithAny("pqr", str));

  }



}

Starts with Any