STARTS_WITH

Applies to: ✅ Data 360 SQL ✅ Tableau Hyper API

Returns true if a string starts with a specified prefix.

1starts_with(<string>, <prefix>)

• <string>: The string to check.
• <prefix>: The prefix to look for.

Returns a boolean value that indicates whether the string starts with the prefix.

• Comparison is case-sensitive.
• An empty prefix returns true for any string.

Check whether a string starts with a prefix.

1SELECT starts_with('alphabet', 'alph') AS result;

Returns true.

• String Types