[jira] [Created] (LANG-1161) StringUtils.startsWith returns true for an empty string comparison

["Nicholas DeFazio (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Nicholas DeFazio created LANG-1161:
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             Summary: StringUtils.startsWith returns true for an empty string comparison
                 Key: LANG-1161
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1161
             Project: Commons Lang
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 3.3
            Reporter: Nicholas DeFazio
            Priority: Trivial


When working on a project I noticed that...

{code}
        boolean match = StringUtils.startsWith("abcdef", "");
        System.out.println(match); //prints true
{code}

My thought was that a comparison of a non empty string to an empty string should result in a false, similar to how null is handled.

{code}
        boolean match = StringUtils.startsWith("abcdef", null);
        System.out.println(match); //prints false
{code}



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