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Return `true` if this string starts with the specified C&hyphen;string&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bslstl&lowbar;string&period;h&gt;`

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bool
starts&lowbar;with(wchar&lowbar;t const* characterString) const;
----


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