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+package stringhelper;
+
+#*************************************************************************
+#
+# DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+#
+# Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
+#
+# OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite
+#
+# This file is part of OpenOffice.org.
+#
+# OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3
+# only, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details
+# (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code).
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+# version 3 along with OpenOffice.org.  If not, see
+# <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html>
+# for a copy of the LGPLv3 License.
+#
+#*************************************************************************
+
+use strict;
+
+BEGIN {
+    use Exporter   ();
+    our ($VERSION, @ISA, @EXPORT, @EXPORT_OK, %EXPORT_TAGS);
+
+    $VERSION     = 1.00;
+    # if using RCS/CVS, this may be preferred
+    $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.2 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r }; # must be all one line, for MakeMaker
+    @ISA         = qw(Exporter);
+    @EXPORT      = qw(&endswith &startswith);
+    %EXPORT_TAGS = ( );     # eg: TAG => [ qw!name1 name2! ],
+    # your exported package globals go here,
+    # as well as any optionally exported functions
+    @EXPORT_OK   = ( ); # qw($Var1 %Hashit &func3);
+}
+
+# string helper like java endsWith
+sub endswith($$)
+{
+    my $string = shift;
+    my $search = shift;
+    if ( $string =~ /${search}$/ )
+    {
+        return 1;
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+sub startswith($$)
+{
+    my $string = shift;
+    my $search = shift;
+    if ( $string =~ /^${search}/ )
+    {
+        return 1;
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
+1;