NSString hasPrefix: function with case sensitivity

From Apple themselves:

NSString *searchString = @"age";

NSString *beginsTest = @"Agencies";
NSRange prefixRange = [beginsTest rangeOfString:searchString
    options:(NSAnchoredSearch | NSCaseInsensitiveSearch)];

// prefixRange = {0, 3}

NSString *endsTest = @"BRICOLAGE";
NSRange suffixRange = [endsTest rangeOfString:searchString
    options:(NSAnchoredSearch | NSCaseInsensitiveSearch | NSBackwardsSearch)];

// suffixRange = {6, 3}

This could be wrapped into an easy-to-use method:

- (BOOL) string:(NSString *)string
      hasPrefix:(NSString *)prefix
caseInsensitive:(BOOL)caseInsensitive {

    if (!caseInsensitive)
        return [string hasPrefix:prefix];

    const NSStringCompareOptions options = NSAnchoredSearch|NSCaseInsensitiveSearch;
    NSRange prefixRange = [string rangeOfString:prefix
                                        options:options];
    return prefixRange.location == 0 && prefixRange.length > 0;
}

You can always use lowercaseString on both strings and thus forcing the same case. So for example

[[string lowercaseString] hasPrefix:[substring lowercaseString]];

Nasty way to do is to lower case the both string and than use hasPrefix e.g.

[[mainString lowercaseString] hasPrefix:[stringToFind lowercaseString]];