IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8.5
  Versions 8.5 and 8.5.1

@Begins

Determines whether a particular substring is stored at the beginning of another string.

Syntax

@Begins( string ; substring )

Parameters

string

Text or text string. Any string.

substring

Text or text string. The string you want to search for at the beginning of string.

Return value

flag

Boolean.

• Returns 1 (True) if substring is contained within string, beginning from the first letter
• Returns 0 (False) if not

Usage

This function is case-sensitive.

If the either parameter is a list, the function tests each element of the second parameter against each element of the first parameter and returns 1 if any match occurs.

See examples

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Last updated: Monday, October 5, 2009