prefix_matches

Warning: prefix_matches is deprecated. Use GLib.File.has_prefix.

Checks whether file has the prefix specified by this.

In other words, if the names of initial elements of file's pathname match this. Only full pathname elements are matched, so a path like /foo is not considered a prefix of /foobar, only of /foo/bar.

This call does no I/O, as it works purely on names. As such it can sometimes return false even if file is inside a this (from a filesystem point of view), because the prefix of file is an alias of this.

Parameters:

this	input File
file	input File

Returns:

true if the files's parent, grandparent, etc is this, false otherwise.