Syntax of b.startsWith() in basil.js

Question

I was wondering how the syntax of the b.startsWith() function in basil.js is supposed to look.

I want to check all words of a text to see, if they start with the string 'some' (like 'sometimes', 'something', 'someone', 'somewhere' etc.).

So, I create a variable that passes on every word of my text to the b.startsWith() function.

When I put the string I am searching for in the brackets ( b.startsWith(some) ), then where exactly will I have to put the variable that will be checked if it starts with my 'some'-string?

Answer 1

There was indeed an error in our documentation. It's fixed now, thanks for letting us know.

So you can use it as

var trueOrFalse = b.startsWith( yourWord, yourSearchToken );

Answer 2

It looks like their documentation has some errors. It shows the function signature as you have described:

b.startsWith(str)

But if you look at the code where the function is defined it looks like this:

var startsWith = pub.startsWith = function(str, prefix) {
  return str.indexOf(prefix) === 0;
};

The first argument is the string to search through, and the second argument is the string to search for.