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Idiom #167 Trim prefix

Create the string t consisting of the string s with its prefix p removed (if s starts with p).

#include <string>
std::string t = s.starts_with(p) ? s.substr(p.size()) : s;
#include <string.h>
size_t l = strlen(p);
const char * t = strncmp(s, p, l) ? s : s + l;

strlen computes the prefix length and strncmp returns zero if the first l characters match

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