Check String Prefix
Check String Prefix
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Given a string S and a prefix P, check whether S starts with P. Print 'Yes' if it does, 'No' otherwise. This teaches substring extraction and comparison — a core skill needed for many parsing and search problems.
Approach
Given string S and prefix P, print 'Yes' if S starts with P, else 'No'.
Input
flycodx
fly
Output
YES
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