How to check if a string starts with one of several prefixes?

Question

I have the following if statement:

String newStr4 = strr.split(\"2012\")[0];
if (newStr4.startsWith(\"Mon\")) {
    str4.add(newStr4);
}

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Answer 1

Do you mean this:

if (newStr4.startsWith("Mon") || newStr4.startsWith("Tues") || ...)

Or you could use regular expression:

if (newStr4.matches("(Mon|Tues|Wed|Thurs|Fri).*"))