Add StringUtils.startsWithIgnoreCase

[JeromeWolff]

As the name of the method says: This method is the same as String.startsWith except that it is case insensitive.

[garydgregory]

I am not a fan of adding more and more "ignore case" versions of APIs.

For 4.0, we could consider a new StringUtils class that has two default instances, one that is case-sensitive, the other not, which you would use like:

StringUtils.DEFAULT.theApiYouWant(...); // case-sensitive
StringUtils.NAME_CASE_SENSITIVE.theApiYouWant(...);
StringUtils.NAME_CASE_INSENSITIVE.theApiYouWant(...);

The alternative for now might be to override the existing API with a boolean or maybe an enum that says what kind of case-sensitivity you want.

Any thoughts from the community?

[JeromeWolff]

Yes, that's a very good suggestion. I wonder why I wrote equalsIgnoreCase several times instead of ignoreCase.

[JeromeWolff]

I have overlooked the fact that such a method already exists. Therefore I close this pull request.