[firebird-support] "starting with" inside a procedure

[shg_siste...@yahoo.com.ar [firebird-support]]

Hello! I know that there are a lot of different ways to accomplish this, but I 
wonder if I'm missing something...
 

 if I want (inside a stored proc or a trigger) to know if str1 starts with 
str2, I can do:
 

    if  (position(str2 in str1) = 1) then...
 

 but there isn't something like the "starts with" predicate we have in SQL...?
 

    if  (str1 starts with str2)  then...
 

 thanks!!!
 

 Sergio