replacement for filepath.HasPrefix?

[Jochen Voss]

Dear all,

filepath.HasPrefix is deprecated, because it doesn't alway work.  What would be a replacement for this function, which at least respects path boundaries, and maybe also ignores case when needed?

All the best,

Jochen

[peterGo]

Jochen,

"the first step is to define exactly what the function should do."

path/filepath: fix HasPrefix #18358

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18358#issuecomment-497728574

Peter

[Jason E. Aten]

When I needed to follow symlinks and exclude application-specific directories, I ended

up copying and customizing Walk() and walk() from the filepath package. They are

short and it was a straightforward to adapt them to my needs.

https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.22.3:src/path/filepath/path.go;l=555

https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.22.3:src/path/filepath/path.go;l=476