String burns = "My love is like a red, red rose.";

	. . . . . .

     if ( burns.toLower().startsWith( "  MY LOVE".trim().toLower() ) )
       System.out.println( "Both start with the same letters." ); 
     else
       System.out.println( "Prefix fails." );

Both start with the same letters.

End of the Chapter

That was a complicated question. I hope you rose to the occasion. If you got burned, review the example. You may wish to review the following.

• An easy way to construct a String.
• The null value.
• How an object becomes garbage.
• String class description.
• String concatenation.
• Shorthand notation for String concatenation.
• Strings as immutable objects.
• The trim() method.
• The startsWith() method.